Site of "Gunmakers Arms" P.H.
Taken over in 1915 by Sylvia Pankhurst and her suffragettes for use as a day nursery when it was known as "The Mothers Arms".
Bow Heritage Trail
E2, Old Ford Road, Tait Court
We chickened out of deciding where to put the apostrophe in 'Mothers'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
The Mothers Arms
Former public house located at 438 Old Ford Road. Sylvia Pankhurst and her fe...
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Traine...
A day nursery set up by Sylvia Pankhurst's suffragettes, giving mothers of wo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
The Mothers Arms
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
There has been a church on this site since 1262. The current building was designed by George Gilbert Scott and erected in 1872.
Designed by the Swiss modernist architect Jacques Schader, this is quite a modest building, and for its date, a pleasant addition to the ...
See St Peter's Close. As far as we can discover Richard Cobden had no particular association with this area.
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903 - 1950, lived and worked here as senior master of the former Hawthorn High School for Boys, April ...
Rossetti kept a menagerie in his back garden, much to the annoyance of his neighbours. It included a bull, a white peacock, a kangaroo, a...
Site of Cutlers' Hall, 1416 - 1883, rebuilt after the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of the City of London
Actor and 40th President of the USA, 1981 - 1989. Honorary knighthood - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Best film line? In the 1942 film "King's Row" on realising that his legs have...
Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA
This is an impressive memorial but many people find it over-sentimental. Like most war memorials it insists we remember the fallen but in...
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