Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Leyton Library
Grade II listed building, designed by John Knight in an Italianate style and opened in 1882 as Leyton Town Hall . Outgrown by 1892 and replaced by the new town hall alongside. Later adapted to serve as a public library.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E10, High Road Leyton, 273
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Leyton Library
Designed by John Knight, this originally opened as Leyton Town Hall. It was o...
Architect. We only have some ideas about who this might be, from Charles Saum...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Leyton Library
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Thomas Park F.S.A. "The poetical antiquary", born 1759, died 1834, and his so...
Benjamin Waugh, 1839 - 1908, founder of the National Society for the Preventi...
Kenneth Wolstenholme DFC and Bar, 1920 - 2002.BBC and the Heritage Foundation
