First recorded in Norman times as part of the royal demesne. It had a long succession of owners and tenants who held rights over the area.
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Manor of Rotherhithe
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St Mary's Church Tower
This tower, being in imminent danger of ruin owing to the weakness of the fou...
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Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott
Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. His son, George, was Lord Mayor from 1908 to 1909 and was the 1st Baronet Truscott of Oakleigh.
4 memorials
Lewen Sharp
Architect and local politician. Alderman of the LCC and Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee of the London County Council in 1906. The LCC's representative on the Royal Institute of British Arch...
1 memorial
Sir Joseph Rotblat
Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...
1 memorial
Councillor H. Adams
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, and of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
1 memorial
Peter Piaktow
Not everyone was happy that Hackney named a block of flats after this anarchist.
1 memorial
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Clothworkers Company
Their Hall, next to All Hallows Staining, was destroyed in the Great Fire.
3 memorials
3 memorials
Alfred Reynolds
NW3, Branch Hill, Lower Lodge
Alfred Reynolds, Hungarian poet and philosopher lived here 1980 - 1993.
1 subject commemorated
John & Ruth Howard Charitable Trust
The Trust will consider giving grants for the preservation of buildings of historic or architectural interest anywhere in England (but not Wales), with a preference for the Greater London area (not...
1 memorial
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