Erection date: 2006
Peter House
This block was built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing and named after Peter Piaktow, who was known as Peter the Painter, the antihero of the nearby Sidney Street Siege.
Tower Hamlets community Housing THCH
E1, Commercial Road, Peter House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
We are indebted to Derek Smith for the following write-up of the siege: The S...
Not everyone was happy that Hackney named a block of flats after this anarchist.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
Hillingdon, London Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, biologist, pharmacologist and Nobel prize winner for the discovery of penicillin, appoin...
Greater London Council Dr. Ernest Jones, 1879 - 1958, pioneer psychoanalyst, lived here.
The two plaques are on the building behind the statue. 2019: Londonist reported that this hospital is going "About To Undergo A Stunning...
In the absence of any other source our colleague Andrew Behan has turned to the Post Office telephone directories for the background to t...
The 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II, the first such celebration in the history of the British monarchy. The Platinum Jubilee weekend was 2-5 June 2022 but celebrations were ...
Hugh Price Hughes, 1847 - 1902, Methodist preacher lived and died here. English Heritage
The monument, commissioned by Queen Victoria and designed by George Gilbert Scott, was built 1864-72, and the statue of Albert was instal...
