Erection date: 1887
Spitalfields Market
Rebuilt by Robert Horner during the year of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1887.
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
E1, Commercial Street, Spitalfields Market - Horner Buildings
The 1885-93 buildings bearing the plaque were designed by George Sherrin for the owner Robert Horner. Spitalfields Life has a good appreciation of the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spitalfields Market - Horner - started
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Sp...
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on...
Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Ess...
Lenin stayed at this address (formerly numbered 21) in 1908 whilst reading at the British Museum and writing 'Materialism and Empirio-cri...
In gratitude to Crystal Hale, tireless campaigner & founder of The Islington Boat Club. The club has provided safe boating for thous...
James Hadley Chase, 1906 - 1985, author, was born here with the name René Brabazon Raymond. Ealing Civic Society
July 2019: Via Facebook we were contacted by Nick Davis, telling us that this plaque had been removed. We got along to the address in Aug...
In 1995 the tower was moved slightly from its original location to accommodate road layout changes. A drawing of 1900 shows it in its ori...
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