William Morris Hall
Financed by local subscription and erected by voluntary labour in 1909 by members of the William Morris Co-operative Society as a "home" for the Socialist/Trades Union/Co-Operative movement in Walthamstow.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E17, Somers Road , 6
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Morris Hall
Ben and Charles Buck proposed a home for the socialist, radical and trades un...
Designer, author and visionary socialist. Born Elm House, Walthamstow, Essex...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Morris Hall
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
The plaque refers to the men being overcome by fumes while "working in this building" but the tragedy took place in a sewer. Seems the p...
By 2017 two non-memorial plaques had appeared: a bronze rectangle in the portico, which reads: "The pedestrian access through the main gu...
Greater London Council William Butterfield, 1814 - 1900, architect, lived here.
This plaque summarises the history of the Hospital and celebrates the opening of the new school in 1875.
