Site of "Gunmakers Arms" P.H.
Taken over in 1915 by Sylvia Pankhurst and her suffragettes for use as a day nursery when it was known as "The Mothers Arms".
Bow Heritage Trail
E2, Old Ford Road, Tait Court
We chickened out of deciding where to put the apostrophe in 'Mothers'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
The Mothers Arms
Former public house located at 438 Old Ford Road. Sylvia Pankhurst and her fe...
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Traine...
A day nursery set up by Sylvia Pankhurst's suffragettes, giving mothers of wo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
The Mothers Arms
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. This modern building sports a clock (of course) with Roman numeral hours and...
We can't find an image of the school that was bombed. An early school appears on this 1895 map, occupying the northern part of the site, ...
Another Tower Hamlets plaque to the left of this one reads "Geoffrey Woolley House was officially opened by Tommy Walsh, Wednesday 20th F...
Having been walked on for many decades the plaque is very worn but with David Hopkins' help we believe we now have it transcribed correct...
Clive lived here from 1761 until his death, from an overdose of laudanum.
In memory of TJ Olatunji Johnson Adeyanju, 3 May 1994 - 23 March 2012.
Vinegar factory owner, philanthropist and politician. MP for Hackney. Born Switzerland. The family's brewery (first gin and then vinegar) was at Cuper's Gardens, Lambeth - demolished when Waterloo ...
Person, Food & Drink, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Switzerland
Architect. Born Maurice Bingham Adams. He was instrumental in the founding of Bedford Park in West London, where he designed many of the houses and parts of St Michael & All Angels Church. In 1...
It was from this underground bunker that the air defence of London and the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain and throughout WW2. It's now a museum and well worth a visit.
Valuation surveyor involved in the creation of Burgess Park. He was piloting a Cessna 172 light aircraft when it crashed in a field near Biggin Hill Airfield, Kent. Three colleagues from work were ...
