Erection date: 5/12/1990
Ravenscroft Park
This park was opened on 5th December 1990 by Dr David Bellamy for the people of Bethnal Green with thanks to the Monument Trust and the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association for assistance with grants.
Bethnal Green Neighbourhood
E2, Columbia Road, Ravenscroft Park
The plaque is on the low, angled, wall - angled upwards to catch the rain, hence its poor condition.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ravenscroft Park
Environmental campaigner and botanist. Brought up in London. Built up a med...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ravenscroft Park
British History has a map showing how in 1986 Tower Hamlets divided itself up...
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It faci...
This was London's first garden square. 59-60 were probably designed by Inigo Jones in about 1630-40. The house next door, number 57-58 is...
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experienced with a cement trowel and stone hammer, while the then Pr...
The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.
{A laurel wreath surrounding the entwined letters: E.W.S.} This tablet has been placed here by the Alexandra Park Trustees as a tribute t...
Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744, poet, lived in this row, Mawson's Buildings, 1716 - 1719. English Heritage
Retail group specialising in clothing and food, founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. There are currently over 700 branches in the U.K. and more than 300 spread over thirty other countries.
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