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
This gig probably came about because the band's bass player at the time, Glen Matlock, was studying at the art school. Also in 2016 The G...
Gairloch House This stone was laid on 29th April 1964 by Stanley G. Shaw whose work for the St. Pancras Housing Society from 1929 to 1958...
Sir David Low, 1891 - 1963, political cartoonist, had his studio here, 1929 - 1940. Erected by the Heath and Hampstead Society
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
Marie Taglioni, 1809 - 1884, ballet dancer, lived here in 1875 - 1876. London County Council
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