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...
PC Dunne was killed in Cato Road (near Clapham North tube) so this memorial is not at the site of his death, where there is another memor...
Maida Vale Studios, home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Radiophonic Workshop, 1934. BBC Heritage Trail
Nina Bawden, CBE, 1925 - 2012, writer and campaigner for railway safety, lived here, 1976 - 2012. London Borough of Islington Islington P...
The plaque carries a QR code that provides smartphone users with audio and visual information on the area’s history, and pictures of the ...
Bow Road Railway Station on the London And Blackwall Railway, built in 1869. Bow Heritage Trail
