Erection date: 2006
Peter House
This block was built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing and named after Peter Piaktow, who was known as Peter the Painter, the antihero of the nearby Sidney Street Siege.
Tower Hamlets community Housing THCH
E1, Commercial Road, Peter House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
We are indebted to Derek Smith for the following write-up of the siege: The S...
Not everyone was happy that Hackney named a block of flats after this anarchist.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
The plaque is on the railings below the Royal Society of Arts one. Dec 2020: our colleague Alan Patient spotted that this plaque has gon...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
In 1997, as a condition of developing the RNH site, Bellway Homes (the developer) was required to create one acre of public open space - ...
The church, the school and the vicarage are all in very distinctive Kentish ragstone and occupy the whole western end of this street bloc...
The plaque is laid in the ground and can be seen in our photo in front of the unoccupied chair.
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