Erection date: 10/11/2018
Joseph Beck, 1828 - 1891, Chairman of the Clissold Park Preservation Committee who spearheaded the campaign (1886 - 8) to save Clissold Park from development, lived in Barton House which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Albion Road, 233
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
The house is said (Hackney Gazette) to have been named for Joseph Beck's gran...
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have es...
Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonat...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A Study in Scarlett" published in 1887. See the plaque at the C...
These plaques were generously photographed for us, at great risk of life and limb, by Matt Brown of Londonist on a privileged visit to th...
The piers on either side of the path look like gate-posts but there's no evidence of any gates ever having been attached. Each of the pie...
The Richmond plaque can be seen in our photo, between the lamppost and the two blackboards.
In later life he became a school caretaker in Tower Hamlets, which is the only connection we can find between him and the area.
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