Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
The Battle of Cable Street
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"They shall not pass"
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grounds.
E1, Dock Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
Mosley planned to march thousands of his British Union of Fascists through th...
Politician and Fascist leader. Born at 47 Hill Street, Mayfair, into landed g...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
L.C.C. John Hughlings Jackson, (1835 - 1911), physician, lived here.
Photographed and numbered from north to south. A nearby information board: On your right is the old Roman road to the south coast (now t...
After we'd posted this our colleague Andrew Behan added some biographical details for the two men.
The station is on the Central line. It has four staircase exits/entrances, but no exterior building. Although it didn't actually open unt...
We were initially surprised to see that the date was a Monday which seemed an odd day to hold a party. But our colleague Alan Patient rem...
David Bomberg, 1890 - 1957, painter, lived and worked here 1928 - 1934. English Heritage
Marshalsea Prison Beyond this old wall is the site of the old Marshalsea Prison, closed in 1842. This sign is attached to a remnant of th...
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900. Previously they had been paris...
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
"Staining" indicates stone-built, as opposed to all the other All Hallows churches in the City which were of wood. All that is left is the tower of the second church on the site, built about 1320. ...
