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
Since the plaque is unchanged we thought that, rather than show a second photo of the same plaque, it would be more interesting to show h...
Sir Geraint Evans, 1922 - 1992, opera singer and producer, lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
This house probably looked OK when it was part of a terrace but on its own it just looks weird.
Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her husband John Middleton Murry, 1889 - 1957, critic, lived here.
Note that that, though blue, this is not an English Heritage plaque. At Beatles in London the 'plaque committee' is given as Richard Port...
