Pete Curran MP 1860 - 1910 the pioneering socialist, trade union leader and first Labour MP for Jarrow lived at 1 Pretoria Avenue, since demolished, during the latter part of his life.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E17, Pretoria Avenue, 1
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Pete Curran
Politician and trade unionist. Born Patrick Francis Curran in Glasgow, becomi...
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Pete Curran
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
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Bernado O’Higgins, 1778 - 1842, general, statesman and liberator of Chile, lived and studied here. English Heritage
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Edwin Waterhouse, eminent accountant, worked in this building, 1899 - 1905. Corporation of London
Born Bradford. Physicist. Professor at King's College London. Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924. Died Edinburgh.
District Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1920-1931. Officer in the Order of St John.
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Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushion look lovely and comfy - just the place to lay a weary head...
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