Initially called 'sha'arhashamayim', the Gate of Heaven, this was the first professing Jewish community in the British Isles to be established in modern times (following the expulsion) and formed the origin of the present Jewish community of Britain as a whole. They established the first synagogue in Creechurch Lane and the first cemetery at Mile End. The Creechurch Lane building was replaced in 1701 with the present synagogue at Bevis Marks.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
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Bevis Marks - reclaimed
After some investigation we realised that this stone-work is only a few feet ...
Bevis Marks - war memorial
Yehidim or, more usually Yehudim, comes from the Bible and means the Kingdom ...
Spanish and Portuguese Jews - 1
This building, erected in 1912, formerly housed the Beth Holim, or hospital, ...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
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First synagogue after resettlement
Sure looks like a City of London plaque but the text around the edge is diffe...
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Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
An exclusive club which only knights can join. Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...
1 memorial
Daphne Doreen Abbs
Daphne Doreen Abbs was born as Daphne Doreen Miles on 25 September 1930. She was the youngest of the three children of Gilbert Redvers Miles (1900-1958) and Lily Rose Miles née Lines (1901-1974). H...
1 memorial
Tagore Centre UK
Dedicated to promoting the work and life of Rabindranath Tagore.
1 memorial
Israel Renson
The National Archives describe Renson as 'chemist and local historian" and give four paragraphs of his life story. In brief: of Russian descent, born in Scarborough Street E1, but in 1910 the famil...
1 memorial
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William Alfred Westropp Foyle
Founded Foyles Bookshop in 1903. Born Shoreditch, the 7th child of a 7th child of a 7th child. William and brother Gilbert opened their first bookshop in Islington, moved to Peckham and then Ceci...
1 memorial
Ursula Mustoe
She was born as Ursula Hedwig Leier on 27 June 1929. In 1947, in the Finsbury registration district, she married Richard William Mustoe (b.1925), an Instrument Maker. Electoral registers of 1951 ...
1 memorial
Highgate Cemetery - Fire - L07 - Lee
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 ...
1 subject commemorated
Druid Street arch WW2 bomb
Railway arches were used as air raid shelters in WW2, as they were relatively secure. In the case of Druid Street however, they couldn't survive a direct hit. Depending on source, the number of dea...
2 memorials
Thomas Nightingale
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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