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...
Here lived Topham Beauclerk. Born 1739. Died 1780. Lady Diana Beauclerk. Born 1734. Died 1808.
George Cruikshank, artist, lived here, from 1850 to 1878. B: Sept.27th 1792. D: Feb.1st 1878. {Almost hidden in the decorative border:}...
This delicate monogram can be decoded to represent: St Margaret and St John, Westminster, an early version of Westminster Council.
Greater London Council Hector Berlioz, 1803 - 1869, composer, stayed here in 1851.
London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.
A freelance engineer, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. According to the monument, Tompson's ashes (and only his) lie buried beneath it. We thoug...
While still Prince of Wales, Edward VII saw a plaster version of this sculpture and initiated the idea of a bronze version being erected ...
Poet and classical scholar. Born Gloucestershire. Died Cambridge. In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including: When you go home, tell them of us and say, Fo...
Ernest John Dodd was born on 26 May 1892, the only child of John Henry Dodd (1851-1917) and Emma Eliza Dodd née Hewins (1858-1944). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1892 in the St Geo...
Chief Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1895-1911. Knight Justice in the Order of St John. In 2012 Roger Bowdler posted this at Genealogy: "My gt-gr...
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