Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
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Councillor J. C. Edwards
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Burnham Estate
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Burnham Estate This stone was laid by ...
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
Founder of the USSR. Born and died in Russia. Political theorist and Communist revolutionary. Reviewing a book on Lenin in the Observer, 23 October 2016, Nigel Jones wrote: "... once in power Lenin...
6 memorials
John Burns
Labour leader and politician. Born John Elliott Burns in Vauxhall. in 1889 he played a major part in the London dock strike. Entered parliament in 1892. Appointed president of the Board of Trade in...
1 memorial
Josiah Charles Stamp
Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. Born Hampstead/Kilburn (depending on source). 1926 he became the fir...
1 memorial
W. G. Nelson
Chairman of the Wanstead District Urban Council in 1897.
1 memorial
Josiah Wedgwood
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
Person, Craft / Design, Industry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
4 memorials
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Boris Karloff
SE22, Forest Hill Road, 36
William Henry Pratt, alias Boris Karloff, 1887 - 1969, actor, was born here. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
Benjamin Baker
Civil engineer. Born Somerset. Worked on the early London underground lines and the Forth Bridge. Was an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster enquiry. Died at home in Pangbourne. Imperial Coll...
3 memorials
Kenneth Grahame
W8, Phillimore Place, 16
This street was called Durham Villas in Grahame's time. This was his London home when his son was born and while "The Wind in the Willow...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Edward Gummer
Had served in the Yorks & Lancaster Regiment. At the time of his death was an in-pensioner at Chelsea Hospital. Killed in a bomb attack on the north east wing of the Hospital.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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