Vernon Hall Roman Road
Formerly Bow Library from 1901 to 1962. Two thirds of the original cost of £6000 was met by Passmore Edwards.
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Gladstone Place, 1
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Vernon Hall
One of many public libraries founded by John Passmore Edwards. Designed by S...
It occupied the building that once was Bow Public Library. We can find find n...
Political and social reformer, politician, peace activist, and anti-slavery c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Vernon Hall
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Vernon Hall
The foundation stones are listed here left to right. They were laid in October 1889 and the building opened in April the following year....
There is another pavement plaque for him in SE16 which was unveiled on the same day.
Friends meeting house. This building was the Peckham meeting house of the Society of Friends 1835 - 1962, attended by eminent quakers inc...
We were expecting the phrase "May they have peace who dwell therein" to be a quote from the Bible but we can't find it.
Taking our photo of the building we were aware of a white van arriving and just hoped that it would not decide to park across the front o...
In 1819 upper warden of the Drapers' Company and Governor of the Queen Elizabeth College Almshouses in Greenwich.
Born in Dublin as Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest', 'Picture of Dorian Gray', etc. A flamboyant aesthete, he may have been Grossmith's model for the character Bunt...
Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre, France, Ireland
Born Marcus Clayton Stone in London, the son of artist Frank Stone who was friends with Thackeray and Dickens. Trained by his father, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy before he was eighteen. ...
Pioneer of good design for London Transport. Born Lincolnshire. Click on the picture source web site for more information.
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