Bethnal Green was formed as a civil parish from the Bethnal Green hamlet in Stepney ancient parish. 1889 it became part of the County of London. 1900 it became a metropolitan borough. 1965 it was abolished and merged into the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. See Simon de Montfort for an explanation of the image.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
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Peachey-Edwards
Peachey Edwards House This block was built in 2004 by Swan Housing Associatio...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
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Bethnal Green Library war memorial
On our first visit there was no plaque, but the 'ghost' marks on the plinth s...
Bethnal Green Town Hall
Borough of Bethnal Green This stone was laid Sept. 23rd 1909 by the Mayor A. ...
Burnham Estate
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Burnham Estate This stone was laid by ...
Diss Street re-housing scheme
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Diss Street Re-housing Scheme This comm...
Lenin Estate / Parmiter Street Housing
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme This ...
Other Subjects
3 memorials
Reformers tree / Reform tree
The text on the memorial says that the original tree was burnt by the people at the Reform League meeting at the tree on that day in 1866 but we can find no confirmation of that. Wikipedia has qui...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Gresham
Created the Royal Exchange in 1566 where the Gresham family crest, a grasshopper, can be seen. Son of Richard Gresham who was a Lord Mayor of London but Thomas never was.
3 memorials
Sir Robert Wade-Gery
Robert Lucien Wade-Gery was born on 22 April 1929 at 41 Museum Road, Oxford, the only child of Henry Theodore Wade-Gery (1888-1972) and Vivian Wade-Gery née Whitfield (1897-1988). His father was Ox...
1 memorial
Jonathan Thorp
Chairman of the Thames Navigation & Port of London Committee in 1857. We can’t find a picture of the man but here’s the cup he was presented with, inscribed: “Thames Navigation & Port of ...
2 memorials
Previously viewed
Highgate Cemetery - Fire - R15 - Faust & Meere
N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
2 subjects commemorated
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