This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
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Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grou...
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed hi...
George Lansbury - E14
Near this place on July 29th 1921 George Lansbury led the people and councill...
Manny Shinwell
The plaque was not there when we first visited the site. We have returned sev...
Other Subjects
Toynbee Hall
The first university settlement house. Founded by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. It was named for their friend, Arnold Toynbee, the economic historian noted for his social commitment and desire to i...
Priscilla Wakefield
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
Tower Hill Improvement Trust
Created by Tubby Clayton, Dr B R Leftwich, Lord Wakefield and Sir Follett Holt. Purpose: to improve Tower Hill by removing from it certain ugly buildings which at that time disfigured it and hampe...
Immigration to Spitalfields
Spitalfields has experienced a number of waves of immigration from other countries, often driven from home due to difficult or dangerous conditions. The French Huguenots escaping religious persecut...
Cecil Johnstone
Hon. Cecil C. E. Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone. See his brother Francis for family information. Attended Eton, 1869-74.
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Private William Alfred Andrade
William Alfred Andrade was the son of William David Andrade (1869-1920) and Esther Andrade. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1896 in the Poplar Registration District, London. In the ...
Danielle Carter
Danielle Kay Carter was born on 2 September 1977 in Basildon Hospital, Nether Mayne, Basildon, Essex. She died, aged 15 years, as a result of an IRA bomb explosion at the Baltic Exchange, St Mary ...
Globe Theatre remains
SE1, Park Street
On Park Street there's a plaque for the Globe but behind that, and possibly missed by some people, is the actual Globe, or rather marking...
Balham Station bombing - 2
SW12, Balham High Road, Balham Underground Station
Plaque 1 incorrectly states that there were 64 people killed in this incident. The Wandsworth Guardian carries the story of how it was di...
John Lennon - NW6
NW6, Maygrove Road, Maygrove Peace Park
The park was built on former railway sidings and opened on 27 April 1983, to coincide with the 38th anniversary of the dropping of the at...
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