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...
Strummer lived here in a squat with the band, the 101ers, named after a previous squat they'd occupied at 101 Walterton Road, W9.
We came across a reference to this HQ in the memoir “My Candle at Both Ends” by John Carveth Wells (1911 – 1946). Aged 12 his mother too...
Bertram Mills had died 8 months before the plaque was unveiled. The Winnipeg Tribune of 7 January the following year contains a vivid de...
Designed as offices for London government, the building was opened in 1922 by King George V. We think it very likely that these plaques,...
Retail group specialising in clothing and food, founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. There are currently over 700 branches in the U.K. and more than 300 spread over thirty other countries.
Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Pala...
Keningale Robert Cook was born on 26 September 1845 in Smallbridge, Rochdale, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), a son of Robert Keningale Cook (1812-1891) and Ellen Cook née Nield (1823-1909). H...
The plaque is around the corner, visible from Highshore Road.
Chemist and meteorologist. Born in London. He became a pharmacist, and set up his own practice in 1793. Made recordings of the weather in London from 1801 to 1841. Although he was not the first per...
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