Group    From 1979  To 2008

Tower Hamlets Environment Trust

Categories: Social Welfare

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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...

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Daniel Mendoza

Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed hi...

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George Lansbury - E14

Near this place on July 29th 1921 George Lansbury led the people and councill...

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Manny Shinwell

The plaque was not there when we first visited the site. We have returned sev...

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Other Subjects

Irish immigrants

Irish immigrants

From the Irish Times: "In the grim 1950s, 40,000 people left Ireland every year to emigrate to Britain. They built the roads and repaired the bombed out buildings of post-war Britain. They staffed ...

Group, Social Welfare, Ireland

1 memorial
Commissioner Adelaide Cox

Commissioner Adelaide Cox

In 1927 she was writing as “Commissioner Adelaide Cox, CBE, until recently Leader of the Women’s Social Work of the Salvation Army”. Our colleague, Andrew Behan provides: Born in Childs Hill, Hen...

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time

The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first proposed in New Zealand in 1895, and was first implemented by Germany and her allies in WW1 (to save coal).  William Willett...

Concept, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Hoxton Market Christian Mission

Hoxton Market Christian Mission

Founded by John and Lewis Burtt. Described by Charles Booth as a "soup kitchen and refuge for the poor". Janet Seale wrote to us in 2013: "I used to attend Sunday School at Hoxton Market Christian ...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
St Mary’s Girls' Club

St Mary’s Girls' Club

See Gospel Lighthouse Mission for all we have on this.

Building, Education, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Whales in The Thames

Whales in The Thames

SE8, Foreshore

We were sceptical but a 2012 article in Time confirms: “Technically, the Queen still owns the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the water...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
West Hackney National Schools

West Hackney National Schools

N16, Evering Road, 9a

We weren't expecting the investigation into this plaque to turn up anything particularly interesting but go to the page for vicar Birch a...

2 subjects commemorated
David Copperfield Children's Library

David Copperfield Children's Library

Founded by the American Rev. J. Brett Langstaff.  The picture is from 1947. The New York Times, 19 March 1922 carries a letter reporting on a performance of a play for the benefit of this library....

Group, Children, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
C. H. Ellett

C. H. Ellett

Church warden of St Dunstans Stepney, 1844.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial