Erection date: 1989
Wrought-iron arch created as a memorial to Altab Ali and other victims of racist attacks. Symbolically combines elements of Bangladeshi and English perpendicular architecture.
E1, Whitechapel Road, Altab Ali Park
The Evening Standard has a thoughtful piece about this park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
{On the red granite inset:} Erected 1860 by one unknown yet well known. Remo...
The two plaques are inside the porch facing each other. The one to J. Dawbarn Young himself, facing north, seems better protected from t...
Wynne was the artist for the central, cartoony, lion and unicorn screen. Lund was the designer of the rather lovely forged stainless ste...
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
From HGS Heritiage: "On 28th April 2001, a group of Suburb residents led by the Reverend Tony Spring formerly {sic} opened a new Memoria...
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
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