Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Middlesex Volunteers. Later part of 17th Battalion London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) of whom 1,022 soldiers were killed in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
The History of Wapping Trust
Turk's Head Charity
E1, Glamis Road
A London Inheritance has a good post on this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
We can find no image of the Drill Hall but have found a "Drill Shed" on a 188...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. More informati...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into ...
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council...
Eric Ravilious, 1903 - 1942, artist, designer and illustrator, was born and lived here until 1907. Ealing Council Acton History Group Eal...
A pleasingly unofficial blue plaque - a rather emphatic layout with the letters practically breaking out the circle.
The names are those of men who worked at the Chalk Farm bus garage, died in WW1 and whose names were listed on a white plaque that was er...
We were initially surprised to see that the date was a Monday which seemed an odd day to hold a party. But our colleague Alan Patient rem...
Great Central Railway, London and District Goods Department employee killed in World War I.
Sculptor. Born Paris. Brother of the musician Constant Lambert. This portrait is by his father. There is photograph of him (older and not so pretty) at the Court Gallery. His other work in London i...
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