{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 ...
This was the obvious memorial to choose as the first featured memorial for London Remembers, in February 2004. Cavell was executed by the...
This memorial used to be at the police station where PC Blakelock served, nearby at 115 Fortis Green, but when that was closed the memori...
The quotation on the 1919 face comes from the Bible, Joshua 4:3, 6-7: "... and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of ...
{Beneath the Board of Ordnance badge with the motto 'Sua Tela Tonanti' (To the warrior his arms), and between two soldiers with bowed hea...
The lettering in this granite stone was originally picked out, probably in gold or black, but now the only way to see that the lettering ...
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