Erection date: 2005
{Above the Millwall Football Club shield and lion symbol:}
Millwall (Rovers) Football Club was founded on this site by workers from the Morton's Jam Factory in 1885.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
E14, Westferry Road
The plaque is on the pavement by the nearest black and white bollard.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Millwall Football Club - E14
Football club. Founded as Millwall Rovers, the club has retained its name des...
The production of jam was actually a minor function of this factory, as it pr...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Millwall Football Club - E14
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Greater London Council Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope), 1863 - 1933, novelist, lived here, 1903 - 1917.
The inscription on the upper plaque requires careful examination to read but it is all legible. We have found two references to these sto...
This was the London home of G. Lowes Dickinson, author and humanist, He was born 1862 and died 1932.
English Heritage Charles Eamer Kempe, 1837 - 1907, stained glass artist lived and worked here.
This plaque commemorates the tercentenary of Shipley's birth and the site of RSA's first meeting place. Interesting that this is a Westmi...
Founded as the North Surrey Gas Company, it became the Crystal Palace District Gas Company before changing to its final name in 1904. It amalgamated with various other companies and was nationalise...
The Royal Brass Foundry in Woolwich was already producing carriages as well as guns but in 1803-5 a building dedicated to carriages was constructed - see picture. John's Military History, the sour...
Around the top are some delightful reliefs in iron of the badges of early fire insurance companies: Sun, Phoenix, London and Royal Exchan...
2016: With the exception of this tall tower, this entire block of buildings has been demolished and replaced with a single massive block....
Architect, born Brixton. FRIBA, active 1900. See London Details for the studios he designed on Talgarth Road. Wikipedia refers to a number of London buildings designed by Wheeler, many in South Lon...
