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...
Sir Donald Sinden, actor, lived here, 1954 - 1997. HGS Residents Association 2015
The feast of the conversion of St Paul is on 25th January which gives the erection date as 26th January 1874. Five years later this same ...
Catherine Walters (Skittles), "The last Victorian Courtesan", lived here from 1872 until 1920.
To the right of our picture there is a section of London Wall with a modern information board sticking out of the ground. We much prefer ...
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 17. Buried in grave 2 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Sometime between 2009 and 2012 a long blue panel was added to this building, low on the left. The text adds some detail to the famous me...
Ship-owner and philanthropist. Probably born in the family house in Blackwall Yard, Poplar, the son of shipbuilder George Green. After completing his studies, he entered the business which speciali...
Sculptor. No information available but we don't think he's the same David Parfitt who paints lovely watercolour landscapes.
Designed houses in Kensington, Clapham and Highbury. Seems not much is known about him.
