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...
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for this photo.
See Spitalfields Life for a good post on the Caslon Foundry. April 2017: John Whitehead told us the plaque has been removed by developer...
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, lived in this house, then known as 18 Woburn Buildings, from 1895 to 1919.
The North Star, 104 Finchley Road. The North Star was built in 1850 as one of the first buildings to grace the new Finchley Road. This hi...
Greater London Council Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1827 - 1900, anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here.
