Hobsons Place
This block was built in 1966 by the Greater London Council and was named after Hobson's Place, which was one of the streets the estate was built over; which had previously been called Pelham Place.
E1, Hanbury Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hobsons Place / Pelham Place
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Our map of 1837 shows a street called Pelham Street. Possibly this became Pel...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hobsons Place / Pelham Place
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
In 2010 London SE1 reported that Thames Water had plans to take over this playground as a work site for the construction of the new 'supe...
Alexis Soyer, 1810 - 1858, chef, author of cookbooks, inventor, lived here. City of Westminster
This is an unusual plaque - painted on a large wooden board that looks like it was intended to be somewhere more populated, holding more ...
Greater London Council Bruce Bairnsfather, 1888 - 1959, cartoonist, lived here.
Surely anyone who decides to repaint a plaque should first check what the inscription is meant to be? We've corrected the rector's name, ...
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