Former public house located at 438 Old Ford Road. Sylvia Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes converted it into a day nursery and called it The Mothers Arms.
The photograph does not portray the actual building, but shows how the area looked in the early 1900s.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Gunmakers Arms
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Charter granted by King Henry VII in 1486. The City's second oldest guild. (Weavers is the answer to your question.)
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