Leyton Histories
Gunpowder production at Temple Mills led to a tragedy in 1690, when Peter Pain, a Huguenot refugee was blown up together with two of the mills, three stone houses, and a lot of gunpowder.
Erected between June 2014 and June 2015. Lost between April 2019 and March 2021.
E11, High Road, Leyton
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Temple Mills
The thousands of building workers who have lost their lives at work. Researc...
A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minist...
A district on the boundaries of Newham and Waltham Forest. The name derives f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Temple Mills
We cannot find any group that uses this name, so believe that the erectors ar...
Details of this repair work are given at British History Online. Until the post-war reconstruction it seems that these were the only sign...
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
English Heritage Tom Sayers, 1926 - 1865, pugilist, died here.
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Mountbatten.
Movement has caused the wall to crack, including the plaque.
Architect. Born 9 Portland Place, now Bartholomew Street, SE1. His partnership with Harold Peto was extremely successful. They designed many of the houses in Harrington and Collingham Gardens inclu...
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