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...
July 2017: Imgur has a photo showing this plaque replaced with a photo of Fury on a sheet of A4 paper, so we've marked the plaque as lost...
Lord David Sheppard, 1929 - 2005, England cricket captain, Bishop of Woolwich then Bishop of Liverpool. Lived here from 1969 to 1975. Pec...
This plaque, on the right flank wall of the red brick building, was unveiled on the same day as the Dallos plaque. The building which h...
A visitor to London Remembers, Alec Hartill, confirms that this church was St John the Baptist. It was the Kentish Town parish church unt...
Peter House This block was built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing and named after Peter Piaktow, who was known as Peter the Pai...
Pathologist. He was involved in founding haematology (the study of blood) and was a pioneer in the investigation and treatment of blood diseases. In the 1940s he established the Journal of Clinical...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Born Southampton. A prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Royal Academy School. Co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His friendship with Ruskin did not survive marrying the ex-Mrs Ruskin...
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