Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.
Describing the Bethnal Green councillors at this time, British History gives: "Some later called themselves Liberals, among them Garnham Edmonds of Edmonds & Mears tripe dressers, a councillor in 1902, religious and social worker and for long chairman of the Liberal Association, mayor in 1907, member of the L.C.C. 1910-22, and M.P. in 1922."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Garnham Edmonds
Borough of Bethnal Green This stone was laid Sept. 23rd 1909 by the Mayor A. ...
Lawyer, business woman and broadcaster. Born Jamaica, came to England aged 3. Chief Executive of London Boroughs of Merton and Lambeth, she has been a campaigner against corruption and for human ri...
Co-church warden of St Botolph Without Aldersgate in 1868.
The ecclesiastical governing body of Westminster Abbey is the Dean together with several canons.
Born Suffolk. Member of the Poplar Borough Council 1903 - 1940, Mayor 1919 - 20 & 1936 - 37. Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Privy Councillor. Leader of the Labour Party 1932 - 35...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Our picture shows part of this building in 1970, before the restoration.
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.
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