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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...
Four standing girls adorn the corners of the plinth. At their feet are cornucopia and in one hand they each clutch a bunch of laurel leav...
Erected in about 2005, the memorial (now almost covered by foliage) can be seen on the right centre of our photograph. Because of the ram...
{Left hand page of an open book:} To commemorate the scouts of the 2nd Walworth Troop drowned off Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, on 4th Augus...
28 victims are buried here; another 6-11 victims (numbers differ between sources) were buried elsewhere. Of these 28, 12 were children (b...
Built 1671-7, designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke as a monument to the Great Fire and as a scientific instrument. Each step is ...
From Westminster we understand that this is a group providing support for Black, Asian and Multiple Ethnic employees of Westminster City Council.
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Old Palace School, Bow, E3 on 20 April 1941. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman William Charles Plant was bor...
English Heritage Robert Travers Herford, 1860 - 1950, Unitarian minister, scholar and interpreter of Judaism, lived and worked here.
Founded the Mothers’ Union in 1876. Born as Mary Elizabeth Heywood in Lancashire. 1848 she married George Henry Sumner, son of C. R. Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, and a second cousin of William Wi...
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