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Old Poplar Town Hall

At Poplar High Street, Woodstock Terrace corner. Listed Grade 2, architects: Hills, Fletcher and Harstons. Built in 1870 for the Poplar District Board of Works, which in 1900 became the Poplar Borough Council. It was extended at the northern end in 1920. In 1938 the council moved out, into the new Town Hall in Bow Road.

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Old Poplar Town Hall

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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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Pensions campaign

Pensions campaign

From British History On-line “…. the campaign which culminated in the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 was begun at a conference held there {Browning Hall  - see Robert Browning Settlement} by Charles ...

Event, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings

Born Oxfordshire. Joined the British East India Company as a clerk and rose to become the first Governor-General of Bengal 1773 - 85. Accused of corruption and the judicial killing of Maharaja Nand...

Person, Politics & Administration, Indian Sub-continent

1 memorial
Councillor T. G. Gibbings

Councillor T. G. Gibbings

Mayor of Southwark Council in 1936.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Esmond Patrick Thomson Roney, CBE, MA, Deputy

Esmond Patrick Thomson Roney, CBE, MA, Deputy

Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial