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.
The rope-framed roundel at the top carries the crest for the RBofK&C, and looks new compared with the rest of the plaque. We're guess...
It looks familiar but we cannot determine the significance of the jigsaw puzzle emblem, nor whether BBC refers to the British Broadcastin...
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. Â We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveili...
William Johnson Cory, Ionicus, 1823 - 1892, teacher, scholar and poet. Lived and died in this house. An assistant master at Eton College ...
Sir William Rothenstein, 1872 - 1945, painter and writer, lived here 1899 - 1902. English Heritage
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