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

Creations i

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

Commissioners of Sewers

Commissioners of Sewers

The City of London was well in advance of other parts of London when it came to sewerage.

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Lady Eleanor Keane

Lady Eleanor Keane

Pioneer in youth work. Born Eleanor Lucy Hicks-Beach, eldest daughter of 1st Earl St Aldwyn. On Valentine's day 1907, just 2 months before laying the foundation stone, she married the Irishman Sir ...

Person, Children, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Moncure Daniel Conway

Moncure Daniel Conway

Born Stafford County, Virginia, USA. Social reformer and ethical preacher. He abandoned his Methodist ministry because of what he saw as its repression of free thought and became a Unitarian. He ca...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Social Welfare, France, USA

3 memorials
Agnes Cotton

Agnes Cotton

Social reformer and philanthropist. Youngest daughter of William Cotton, remained unmarried. Opened a Home for Friendless Girls in 1865, at Forest Glade, in Whipp's Cross Road.  Then 1876, she boug...

Person, Philanthropy, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Captain Thomas Coram

Captain Thomas Coram

Born Lyme Regis, Dorset, where there is now a commemorative tower. Pioneer in the cause of child welfare. He became a Captain in the Merchant Navy trading between England and America. For several ...

Person, Children, Social Welfare, USA

3 memorials

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LSHTM - Chadwick

LSHTM - Chadwick

WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...

1 subject commemorated
Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

Poet Laureate. Born London.

Person, Poetry

2 memorials
Alfred Barnes

Alfred Barnes

Labour and Co-operative politician. President of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Minister of Transport, 1945-51. Born North Woolwich. Lost a leg in a fairground accident...

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Free French plaque

Free French plaque

NW1, Dorset Square, 1

Alamy have a photo of the unveiling.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator