Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922 and Housing Committee Parmiter Street, 1926.
Member of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
Mayor of Bethnal Green 1924-27 (three terms).
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Alderman Charles William Hovell
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Diss Street re-housing scheme
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Diss Street Re-housing Scheme This comm...
Lenin Estate / Parmiter Street Housing
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme This ...
Swinburne House
Apart from the architect the names on this plaque are the same as those on th...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Alderman Charles William Hovell
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Lenin Estate / Parmiter Street Housing
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme This ...
Other Subjects
Jim Heales
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Dr. Frederick Montague Miller
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Old Poplar Town Hall
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Robert Clayton
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Poplar Rates Rebellion
Tax protest led by George Lansbury supported by the councillors of Poplar Borough Council. On behalf of Poplar, an extremely poor borough, they held back taxes and were taken to court for non-paym...
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Sir Ambrose Fleming
W9, Clifton Gardens, 9 + 11
Following the erection of the Pettit plaque we visited in June 2024 to photo that and to take a new photo showing numbers 9 and 11 with t...
Thomas Johnson
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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