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...
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847 - 1929, pioneer of women's suffrage, lived and died here. London County Council
Charlotte Mew, 1869 - 1928, poet, lived here, 1869 - 1890. Marchmont Association
Deptford Creek This is the mouth of the River Ravensbourne, first bridged in 1804. the Domesday Book of 1086 noted many watermills nearb...
See Lost Hospitals of London for an excellent history of this hospital. Briefly: The White House, a mansion with 5 acres of grounds, was built in 1866. Dr Langdon Down and his wife Mary bought it ...
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