45 Norman Grove. E. Sylvia Pankhurst set up the East London Toy Factory and babies nursery in this house and the building in the rear garden, 1914 - 1934.
The factory was financed by Norah Lyle-Smyth (1874 - 1963).
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Norman Grove, 45
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing worksho...
Painter, sculptor, photographer and suffragette. Born Norah Veronica Lyle-Smy...
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Traine...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
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The text we have transcribed is off a very dull plaque on this wall near the ground. The photograph shows the name plaque, high on the bu...
Plaque unveiled by David Suchet and Loyd Grossman (then chairman of the blue plaques panel).
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The theatre was designed by W. G. R. Sprague in 1905. It opened as the Waldorf Theatre with offices on the top 3rd and 4th floors. Novell...
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