Former London borough which is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Stepney Borough Council
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Arthur Deakin
Arthur Deakin House This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council a...
Hugh McGlashon
McGlashon House This block was built in 1961 by Stepney Borough Council and w...
Vollasky House
Vollasky House This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council and wa...
Other Subjects
Peter Frank Stott
Civil engineer. Eight years working in Australia. Director of Highways and Transportation at the GLC 1964-67. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1990. Died Devon.
Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Transport, Australia
2 memorials
Lionel Vincent Straker, C.C.
Chairman of Girdlers Hall Committee, 1960.
1 memorial
London Borough of Hounslow
Formed under the London Government Act of 1963, by the merger of the former Brentford and Chiswick Urban District, Feltham Urban District and the Heston and Isleworth Urban District.
5 memorials
2 memorials
A. B. Cloutman
Philanthropist. Alfred Benjamin Cloutman (but always known as A. B.). Born Bristol. Began work as a junior assistant at Maple & Co and rose to become Governing Director, later Life Governor, ...
1 memorial
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Spitalfields weaving industry
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were skilled silk weavers and set up looms in their homes in Spitalfields. The Spitalfields textile trade thrived until the mi...
2 memorials
Jewish expulsion and resettlement
In 1290 Edward I expelled Jews from England and for centuries, apart from those that practised their religion in secret, there were no Jews in England. In 1657, following a petition to Cromwell an...
4 memorials
Chelsea Embankment memorial - restored
SW3, Chelsea Embankment, Albert Bridge Gardens
An unusually decorative and high quality plaque for such a mundane event. We don't know whether it refers to a restoration of just the me...
1 creator
Ava Gardner
Actor. Born near Smithfield, North Carolina, USA. Married: Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra (divorced 1957). This last was a famously stormy and passionate romance. Aged 33 moved to Madrid,...
2 memorials
Frank Matcham
Theatre architect. Born Newton Abbot, Devon. Never qualified as an architect but designed at least 80 theatres and did some work on about the same number again. About 24 of his theatres survive rea...
10 memorials
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