Erection date: 5/5/1946
Sun Yat-Sen, 1866 - 1925, father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on this site while a political exile from his country.
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WC1, Warwick Court, 4
A London Inheritance has a photo of this plaque shortly after its unveiling on a remaining wall of a bombed building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sun Yat-Sen
Born in Guangdong province, China. A leader in the revolution which overthrew...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sun Yat-Sen
A member of the British Parliamentary Mission to China in 1942. In December 1...
Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provide...
The phrase "Guilders Stone" has not been explained, other than a suggestion that it originally read "Builders Stone" and that a 1990s ren...
These almshouses were built c.1847 and badly damaged in WW2 which is when the Society vacated them. They are labelled on the map at Marke...
In 2010 London SE1 reported that Thames Water had plans to take over this playground as a work site for the construction of the new 'supe...
In later life he became a school caretaker in Tower Hamlets, which is the only connection we can find between him and the area.
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening in 1998. The Independent explains the delay: "The reason it has taken so long to build ... has relatively little to do w...
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