Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
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John Oakes
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Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
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Newham Council
West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Borough of Newham in 1965.
8 memorials
Simon de Montfort
6th Earl of Leicester. Born France, with connections to French and English aristocracy. Married Eleanor, Henry III's sister in 1238. Built the Savoy Palace in 1245. Leader of the Second Barons' War...
2 memorials
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of USA. Married a distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt. Led the States into WW2 and died in office. Had polio from age 39 and is almost always shown seated. See Listicles for 6 more sta...
4 memorials
George Adam Sheldon
JP and Chairman of Bexley Urban District Council 1909-1917. George Adam Sheldon was born in 1855 in Bexley Heath, Kent, the eldest of the seven children of William Sheldon (1835-1887) and Martha S...
1 memorial
Alderman Bishop
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905.
1 memorial
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Aysha Frade
Died in an act of terrorism on 22 March 2017 on Westminster Bridge. Aysha Frade had been walking across Westminster Bridge to pick up her two young daughters from school when she was killed. The Br...
1 memorial
William Curtis Green
Architect and designer, based in London for much of his career. London works include: the Dorchester Hotel, Wolseley House at 160 Piccadilly, New Scotland Yard. Around 20 of his designs are listed ...
1 memorial
Chelsea Temperance Society
Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1906 they published a set of cards showing their original Sydney Hall and vacant site nearby at the southern apex of Bury...
6 memorials
London & South Western Railway
Initially named London and Southampton Railway it connected all the way to Plymouth into a London terminus at Nine Elms. The line was extended in 1848 to terminate at the new station Waterloo. L&am...
2 memorials
Dove Bros. Ltd
Builders. Founded in Studd Street, Islington by William Spencer Dove (1793-1869). In 1852 his sons turned the business into a partnership. Builders of the pathology block of St Bartholomew's Hospit...
7 memorials
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