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
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
St Mary’s Girls' Club
See Gospel Lighthouse Mission for all we have on this.
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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...
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...
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....
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