Erection date: 1928
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) antarctic explorer, lived here.
L.C.C.
SE26, Westwood Hill, 12
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Sir Ernest Shackleton - SE26
Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and ...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton - SE26
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
The Arnold Bennett Society Arnold Bennett, author, 1867 - 1931, lived, worked and died here, 1930 -1931.
Commemoration of this event has had a chequered history. First Hackney mistakenly erected a plaque on the wrong building. That plaque the...
Laid in the ground between the two fountains. The third bust, to Cunningham, was installed much later than the two to Jellicoe and Beatty.
The plaque was laid in 1921 (British Pathe film) and the building was opened on 3 June 1926 by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin and th...