Leyton Histories
Gunpowder production at Temple Mills led to a tragedy in 1690, when Peter Pain, a Huguenot refugee was blown up together with two of the mills, three stone houses, and a lot of gunpowder.
Erected between June 2014 and June 2015. Lost between April 2019 and March 2021.
E11, High Road, Leyton
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Temple Mills
The thousands of building workers who have lost their lives at work. Researc...
A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minist...
A district on the boundaries of Newham and Waltham Forest. The name derives f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Temple Mills
We cannot find any group that uses this name, so believe that the erectors ar...
Blitzwalkers give a good description of the incident. The AFS squad sent to fight this fire included Holder, the war artist Leonard Roso...
This stone was laid by Lady Kortright, 5 August 1896 and the hospital opened by HRH Princess Louise, 21 July 1897.
Site of Grey Friars Monastery, 1225 - 1538. The Corporation of the City of London
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
This framed photo is in the ground floor foyer of this block of flats.
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