Erection date: 1989
Wrought-iron arch created as a memorial to Altab Ali and other victims of racist attacks. Symbolically combines elements of Bangladeshi and English perpendicular architecture.
E1, Whitechapel Road, Altab Ali Park
The Evening Standard has a thoughtful piece about this park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
{On the red granite inset:} Erected 1860 by one unknown yet well known. Remo...
From HGS Heritiage: "On 28th April 2001, a group of Suburb residents led by the Reverend Tony Spring formerly {sic} opened a new Memoria...
St Giles-in-the-Fields was founded as a leper hospital by Matilda, Queen of Henry I in 1101; it was dissolved in 1539 and its former chap...
Wynne was the artist for the central, cartoony, lion and unicorn screen. Lund was the designer of the rather lovely forged stainless ste...
The streets laid out on the site of York House were named: Villiers Street, Duke Street, Buckingham Street, George Court and Of Alley (no...
"The splendid struggling mothers..." is surely a quote from something, perhaps written by Geraldine Mary at the time the Park was being p...
"The beauty of trees..." is a quotation from Hutcheson.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for this photo.
Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bird (a swallow?) used to be flying in front of an enamelled bl...
