Erection date: 20/4/1990
This stone was laid by Councillor Mrs Patricia Catchpole Vice Chair of the Bow Parks Board to commemorate the construction of the Royal Gates, 20th April 1990.
Architect: Derek Lovejoy Partnership
Contractor: Mulalley & Co Ltd
Metalwork: The Cast Iron Co.
The plaque is not clear about what was constructed. The piers look original so we guess it was just the gates themselves.
E9, Grove Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royal Gates - Victoria Park
Based in Guildford. From their website: For over twenty-five years, the Cast ...
Building firm set up by the O'Malley family in 1972, based in Woodford Green.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Royal Gates - Victoria Park
Liberal councillor. Vice Chair of the Bow Parks Board in 1990.
In this house was born Eduard Suess (1831 - 1914) geologist, economist, statesman. Erected by the Geological Society of London
A smaller stone in the lower right corner seems to be part of the overall design and has some markings on it but we could make nothing of...
The plaque is a one-off in a delicate serif typeface. The off-set string course suggests that the plaque was designed into the building. ...
Michael Caine unveiled his own plaque.
At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but then we saw that a screw has gone missing.
President of the British Women's Temperance Association, Holloway Branch.
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