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.
We know no more about this plaque than what Ornamental Passions discovered: it was on an older building on this site and lost in 1937 whe...
This pair of semi-detached houses was built in 1881 and immediately put to use as Westfield College. Number 6, to the left with the West...
See Londonist for future plans.
Sir Alan Cobham, 1894 - 1973, aviator, was born here. English Heritage
Historian. Born in Oxford. Took orders and was vicar of St Philip's, Stepney. Became a librarian in Lambeth and wrote a number of history books, e.g. "A History of the English People", "The Making ...
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