{On three marble slabs attached to the base of the cross:}
To the honoured memory of those employees of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington who made the supreme sacrifice during two world wars, 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945.
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Town Hall
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect this memorial because in the list on the back Forman is given ...
The 52 columns are 1m apart, 3.5m high and made of roughly textured stainless steel cast in sand. They are arranged in four clusters of ...
The list of names contains two pairs of duplicates: C. Chipperfield and H. Smith; neither is a transcription error on our part. These cou...
Here fell P.C. Stephen Tibble, 26th February 1975. {Below is the badge of the Metropolitan Police.}
The statue is named 'Victory'. While the form of the monument is very different, the inscription is extremely similar to that on the Edmo...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
At the north end of Post Office Court, attached to the west wall adjoining St Mary Woolnoth, are six salvaged carved panels. We have numb...
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