This stone
laid by
a friend
God's gift to all Jesus
N19, Winscombe Street
Above the door on the left is inscribed "1892".
On the south face of this building are 4 inscribed stones laid by (left to right) JC Randall, Richard Avery, a friend, MJ Lynn.
Searching on the web all we can find out about the People's Gospel Mission is that there was another at 244 Hackney Road (1887-1895).
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
People's Gospel Mission Hall - C
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
People's Gospel Mission Hall - C
This stone laid by Richard Avery, founder and President of the People's Gospe...
This stone laid by Mrs J Lynn President of the British Women's Temperance ...
On this site the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor was founded on 27th April 1908. 31 Essex Street.
In grateful memory of Alderman Charles Fisher Yates JP, an ardent worker for and benefactor of the West Hackney Almshouses, who passed aw...
"Not by bread alone doth man live" x To commemorate the generous hospitality of the Oratory Fathers, whereby the f...
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
