Erection date: 20/4/1990
This stone was laid by Councillor Mrs Patricia Catchpole Vice Chair of the Bow Parks Board to commemorate the construction of the Royal Gates, 20th April 1990.
Architect: Derek Lovejoy Partnership
Contractor: Mulalley & Co Ltd
Metalwork: The Cast Iron Co.
The plaque is not clear about what was constructed. The piers look original so we guess it was just the gates themselves.
E9, Grove Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royal Gates - Victoria Park
Based in Guildford. From their website: For over twenty-five years, the Cast ...
Building firm set up by the O'Malley family in 1972, based in Woodford Green.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Royal Gates - Victoria Park
Liberal councillor. Vice Chair of the Bow Parks Board in 1990.
Bragansas This two-dimensional form is a bragansa, a Cognate word which can be crudely translated as "spirit door" or "tombshadow," but r...
Ugo Foscolo, 1778 - 1827, Italian poet and patriot, lived here, 1817 - 1818. English Heritage
This plaque was given by the Royal Navy in memory of Captain Ralph Douglas Binney CBE Royal Navy who, on 8 December 1944 died from injuri...
We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it exactly. Just shows that way back in 1858 even people in a po...
