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A large crucifix is quite common in the forecourt of a church. This one, planted in a pile of stones, a cairn, reminds us of one in Highgate that specifically references WW1 which suggests that this taciturn memorial is also for WW1.
E2, Cambridge Heath Road, St John on Bethnal Green
This church was designed by Sir John Soane, 1826-8.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St John on Bethnal Green war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This photo shows a section of the list of names. See our page for the memorial in its current location for the the complete list of names...
It's certainly a vent shaft for the car park beneath, but this column, or rather the flaming urn, is apparently also a memorial, accordin...
From the Greenwich Society website we learn that this garden was created by the Society out of a bomb site. The Victorian-style marble m...
Clearly today was not a good time to photo this church. At the centre of the cross is the monogram "I S H" which represent the Greek ini...
The expression "our glorious dead" suggests that this memorial was raised to the dead in the armed forces only and not to any civilian dead.
Co-founder National Sporting Club. Manager of The Pelican Club (opened in Gerrard Street, 1887) until it failed in 1891. He then joined with Bettinson to open the National Sporting Club. See there ...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
The Institute and School vacated in 1905 and the telephone exchange building was constructed in 1936. One wonders how the site was used ...
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