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...
Plaque unveiled by Mike Leigh director of the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy.
The "A"s are certainly the anarchists' 'A' symbol but we don't understand what the hands signify. The gesture shows the thumb and first f...
In 2009 Alan Patient reported that "the pub has been boarded up for many months and the plaque removed." 2013: The Victorian Society are...
Rossetti kept a menagerie in his back garden, much to the annoyance of his neighbours. It included a bull, a white peacock, a kangaroo, a...