Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
The Battle of Cable Street
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"They shall not pass"
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grounds.
E1, Dock Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
Mosley planned to march thousands of his British Union of Fascists through th...
Politician and Fascist leader. Born at 47 Hill Street, Mayfair, into landed g...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
William Heath Robinson, 1872 - 1944, artist, illustrator and cartoonist known as the 'gadget king', lived here. Historic Buildings of the...
This tablet was erected in loving memory of William Compton, fifth Marquess of Northampton, KG, by his London tenants and friends.
After we'd posted this our colleague Andrew Behan added some biographical details for the two men.
Brunel's engine house The tunnel shaft and pumping house for Marc Brunel's tunnel was constructed between 1825 and 1843. This was the fir...
From the Friends' website: "The Gardens were once the burial ground for two nearby churches – ... St George’s Bloomsbury, and the church ...
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