Erection date: /4/2012
Inscription
Will Crooks Mayor of Poplar Member of Parliament guardian of the poor 1852 - 1921.
{On an adjoining panel:}
Designed by students at Tower Hamlets College
Painted by Soyful Ahmed Thufayel
Shahriar Ahmed
Abzal Khan
Farhad Miah and 20 children from the Will Crooks Estate with help from David Bratby
April 2012.
2021: We were contacted by Sarwar Ahmed who wrote "The information you hold is incorrect as the artwork was not designed by Tower Hamlets College students. This was designed by myself. Please can this be corrected."
Site: Will Crooks (1 memorial)
E14, Poplar High Street, Will Crooks Estate
The 'prison bars' are presumably there to protect the mural from graffiti artists.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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