In memory of Victor Andrew D'Biere McLaglen, 10.12.1886 to 7.11.1959, boxer & Oscar winner for The Informer.
E1, Commercial Road, 505
The oblong plaque above the Mclaglen plaque reads: "495 - 515 Commercial Road, Spitalfields Housing Association Ltd."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Victor McLaglen
Boxer and film actor. Born as Victor Andrew D'Biere McLaglen in, according t...
We have Sue Thorburn to thank for bringing this plaque to our attention.
Unveiled by by Dr Helen Pankhurst, Sylvia's great granddaughter.
The drawing is surely by Mel Calman but we can find nothing to connect him with this development.
All that remains of Smirke's 1829 Post Office building in St. Martins-le-Grand is this five-ton Ionic capital from the right hand corner ...
1882 - not the date of this plaque which is, from the look of it, much more recent. The GLC only came into existence in 1965 so we canno...
In 1923 the Prince of Wales was Edward, who later became, briefly, King Edward VIII.
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
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