Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engineering designs made the Mulberry Harbour and the D-Day landings of 1944 possible.
London Borough of Newham - Heritage Project
E6, Montpelier Gardens, 93
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Major Allan Beckett
The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in...
Civil engineer. Born Allan Harry Beckett in East Ham. He designed the 'whale'...
Temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom in WW2 for the ra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Major Allan Beckett
West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Bor...
Sir Rowland Hill, 1795 - 1879, postal reformer, lived here. LCC
The pale stone is on the building at first floor level. The black stone is in the pavement in front of the building. However, we have to...
Actor, Henry Irving, (John Henry Brodribb), 1838 - 1905, lived on this site, 1881 - 1889.
Site of the Parsonage of St Nicholas Acons where scientific life assurance began in 1762. The Corporation of the City of London
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, 1938- -1997, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and Nigerian activist lived in this house as a student in 1958....
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them