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...
Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
The wording of the Mayo plaque is a little strange. In what way could research give the Leysdown tragedy to the Friends of the Cemetery?...
The large aluminium sculpture "Winged Figure" on the side of the building is by Barbara Hepworth. See Ornamental Passions for commentary ...
Site of St. Margaret's Church (13th century) and the Borough Compter. Historic Southwark
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Minister, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
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