Nelson Gardens
This building was built in 1976 by the Greater London Council. It was named after Lord Horatio Nelson (1758 - 1805), who was the British admiral famous for the victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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E2, Nelson Gardens
See St Peter's Close. As far as we can discover Nelson had no particular association with this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nelson Gardens
A sea battle that took place off Cape Trafalgar on the south west coast of Sp...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. Naval commander who became a national hero a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nelson Gardens
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the names actually run west to east. That sounds like the sort...
At the right hand end of the terrace there is a delightful and very unusual water fountain arrangement. 2018: The Telegraph included thi...
{Beneath the London Borough of Tower Hamlets crest:} Bradley Lynch 1972 - 1988 Bradley Lynch was a local youth who died at the age of 16 ...
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on the building but on one of those easel things often used fo...
