William Morris Hall
Financed by local subscription and erected by voluntary labour in 1909 by members of the William Morris Co-operative Society as a "home" for the Socialist/Trades Union/Co-Operative movement in Walthamstow.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E17, Somers Road , 6
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Morris Hall
Ben and Charles Buck proposed a home for the socialist, radical and trades un...
Designer, author and visionary socialist. Born Elm House, Walthamstow, Essex...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Morris Hall
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Water Meeting Bridge. Re-built by the St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council and opened by His Worship The Mayor of St Pancras, Councill...
Grim's Dyke was designed by R. N. Shaw in 1872 for Frederick Goodall. He sold in 1880 to Robert Herriot of Hambros Bank from whom, Gilber...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
These 9 plaques are laid into the floor of the hall, in a line down the middle, in this sequence, starting at the entrance end: R101; Has...
Mill lived at this address, 1837 - 1851, with his mother and sister.
Bob Speel tells us that this sculptor's works are rare, in London at least, but he knows of some in Salisbury and Oxford. The NPG has "Hope-Pinker".
Kenny Clare 1929 - 1984 acclaimed British jazz drummer born in Leytonstone, lived here 1953 - 1957. Waltham Forest Heritage
