Erection date: 2006
Peter House
This block was built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing and named after Peter Piaktow, who was known as Peter the Painter, the antihero of the nearby Sidney Street Siege.
Tower Hamlets community Housing THCH
E1, Commercial Road, Peter House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
We are indebted to Derek Smith for the following write-up of the siege: The S...
Not everyone was happy that Hackney named a block of flats after this anarchist.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
English Heritage has acknowledged that the plaque was erected on the wrong house, and should be where Waugh actually lived, on what is no...
Lord Hore-Belisha, 1893 - 1957, statesman, lived here. Greater London Council
This plaque is high on the east end of the church, the surrounding garden being so blighted by aircraft noise we were surprised that our ...
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
Edward Dannreuther, musician, 1844 - 1905, lived here 1873 - 1894. Host to Richard Wagner for 5 weeks in 1877. City of Westminster
English Heritage Louis MacNeice, 1907 - 1963, poet, lived here, 1947 - 1952.
Chairman of the Savoy Group 1948 - 1984 and Managing Director 1941 - 1979. Lord Mayor of London in 1973. Born 62 Esmond Road, Acton into a theatrical family. Credentials: GBE CVO D Litt, JP. D...
When Ben was a child his family lived at number 1 Pilgrim's Lane, 1904-6. His time at 2b was during the 1970s and 80s.
The Fitzwilliam Museum has a page showing an original medal and: "The victory of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 led to the first British Ar...
Marconi House was built in 1904 as the Gaiety Restaurant, linked with the Gaiety Theatre which was in the building to the west. The Mar...
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