Architect and East Ham Mayor, 1914-18. Born Norfolk. He visited troops from East Ham on the western front.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Robert Banks-Martin
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East Ham war memorial
This is a substantial monument, often described, understandably, as a cenotap...
Jack Cornwell V.C. - Hornchurch
We first took a photograph of this plaque some time ago, before it was stolen...
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Charles Walter Clark
Architect. Chief architect for the Metropolitan Railway Company, designing 25 London Underground stations. Also designed houses for Metro-land, which that railway opened up for housing. His Wikiped...
2 memorials
John Hargrave Stevens
Architect. Seems to have specialised in churches and often worked in partnership with George Alexander.
1 memorial
William Butterfield
Gothic Revival architect. Born London. Wikipedia give a list of his works and it is long, mainly churches, including in London: All Saints - Margaret Street; St Augustine's - Queen's Gate; St. Ma...
1 memorial
Frank Meisler
Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...
Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
1 memorial
John Johnson
Architect. Born Hoxton. Our information comes from the Victorian Web which names many buildings that Johnson worked on. This is not the other John Johnson architect (1807 – 1878) who designed Alex...
3 memorials
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Harold Charles Nokes
Rifleman Harold Charles Nokes. His name is shown spelt incorrectly as Harold Noakes on the Hoxton War Memorial. He was born in 1897, the younger child of Edward Charles Nokes (1865-1948) and Amel...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
River Effra
At the Brockwell Lido plaque there is an information board which begins by explaining the function of stink pipes: "What is a stink pipe? The lofty green pipe behind you is a Victorian stink pipe, ...
17 memorials
Robert Besley
Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, 1869 - 70. Typefounder and and punchcutter, credited with cutting the first Clarendon, a fat typeface with thick slabs, the first ever registered typeface. The ...
2 memorials
Carrie Reichardt
Artist active in 2020 with a number of long-running projects, and involved in a number of campaigns. She is a long-time campaigner against the death penalty and communicated with Herman Wallace for...
24 memorials
Newham Council
West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Borough of Newham in 1965.
8 memorials
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