In 1855, Poplar joined with neighbouring Bromley and Bow to form the Poplar District of the Metropolis. This became the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in 1900. In 1965 it merged with the Metropolitan Boroughs of Stepney and Bethnal Green to form the new Tower Hamlets Council.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Poplar Borough Council
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Poplar civilians killed in WW2
The local listing (which we can no longer access) for this memorial contains:...
Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Poplar Borough Council
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Newby Place graveyard monument
The (rather creepy) Biblical quotation is from the King James Version: John 5...
Other Subjects
Sir Denis Truscott, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London in 1957
1 memorial
Sir Walter Raleigh
Courtier, explorer, author and puddle-coverer. Born Devon. Became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and explored Virginia, America, for her, enabling its colonisation. Briefly imprisoned in the T...
Person, Exploring, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA
3 memorials
A. Deans
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.
1 memorial
Mrs A. M. Hallett
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this woman: Mrs Alice Mabel Hallett was born about 1887 and the first record I could find about her was on...
1 memorial
Garnham Edmonds
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. Describing the Bethnal Green councillors at this time, British History gives: "Some later called themselves Liberals, am...
1 memorial
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
Francis Golding
Architectural expert: honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), head of the Royal Fine Art Commission during the late 1990s and had worked on major projects such as the ...
1 memorial
Arts Council of England / Great Britain
1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up by Royal Charter. About 1946 it became the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 1994 it was split into national bodies,...
15 memorials
Harrow Heritage Trust
A trust set up with the objectives of encouraging artists and architects of both landscape and buildings to create the heritage of the future, whilst protecting the heritage of the past.
8 memorials
1 memorial
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