Erection date: 10/11/2018
Joseph Beck, 1828 - 1891, Chairman of the Clissold Park Preservation Committee who spearheaded the campaign (1886 - 8) to save Clissold Park from development, lived in Barton House which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Albion Road, 233
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
The house is said (Hackney Gazette) to have been named for Joseph Beck's gran...
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have es...
Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonat...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
This plaque is puzzling in a number of ways: Material? Date erected? Where erected? Why erected? It’s not a simple burial marker since th...
Eisenhower's office was the corner room on the first floor (for our American friends - this is the floor above the ground floor). Discov...
London County Council Sir George Alexander, 1858 - 1918, actor manager, lived here.
Unveiled by Cohen's daughter, the Tesco heiress and disgraced Conservative politician Dame Shirley Porter.
{Beneath the Polish coat of arms and beside the emblem of the Polish underground resistance movement:} Major-General Stanisław Sosabowsk...
Clerk to the Commissioners of the 1892 Westminster Public Baths and Wash-houses. 1872 operating as a solicitor. Probably James Charles Frampton Warrington Rogers, the man on this My Heritage page.
This unusual memorial was brought to our attention by the ever fascinating Discovering London where you can read how it came to be.
The four Adam brothers: John (1721-1792, born Edinburgh), Robert - the important one, James and William, (1738-1822, suicide) together designed classical buildings. Father was an architect. Ini...
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
Novelist and poet, best known for his novels set in rural 'Wessex' such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Born Upper Bockhampton, Dorset. Before turning to writing full-t...
