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Hackney Mosaic Project

Categories: Craft / Design

The Hackney Mosaic Project is a community project based in Hackney, London that helps people with addiction and mental health problems by teaching them to create mosaic artworks, Started by Tessa Hunkin. In 2014 some of their work was awarded the British Association for Modern Mosaic's 2014 Mosaic of the Year.

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Hackney Mosaic Project

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Nathaniel Acton mosaic

{At the centre:} This estate is named after Nathaniel Acton, 1725 - 1795, who...

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Meridian Bronze

Meridian Bronze

We're not certain we have found the right foundry. Its name seems right but it's Australian which seems wrong. From their website: "Established in 1973 by Peter Morley, Meridian Sculpture was the ...

Group, Craft / Design, Sculpture, Australia

1 memorial
Paul Bommer

Paul Bommer

Professional freelance illustrator & graphic designer based in London’s East End. His website.

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Hannah Barlow

Hannah Barlow

Born Bishop's Stortford. Studied at Lambeth School of Art where she was a student of John Sparkes. Began work at Doulton's in 1871, the first female employee, she specialised in painting animals. H...

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
2012 Olympic Games bell

2012 Olympic Games bell

It is the largest harmonically-tuned bell in the world. It was designed by the Whitechapel Foundry, but because of its size, they were unable to cast it. The task was carried out by a Dutch company...

Event, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Francis Owen Salisbury

Francis Owen Salisbury

Painter. Born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Known as Frank, his forte was in portraiture and he also painted over forty large canvases of historical and national events. He also produced a large qua...

Person, Art, Craft / Design

2 memorials

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Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways

A train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains. It operates commuter/regional services from its Central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor, as well as long distance se...

Group, Transport

1 memorial
Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood

Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood

Fought on the anti-royalist side in the Civil War. In 1652 he married for the second time to Bridget, Cromwell's daughter and widow of Henry Ireton. That same year he was appointed Lord Deputy of I...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
George Padmore

George Padmore

International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa).  Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad.  Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935.  Worked as ...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana

1 memorial
Brown Dog statue

Brown Dog statue

SW11, Battersea Park, Woodland Walk

See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affair.  This ended when, in 1910 the original statue was removed...

3 subjects commemorated, 4 creators
Lorne House

Lorne House

E5, Lower Clapton Road, 126-128

Not the style, but the high quality of this plaque reminds us of the one in Bessborough Gardens, unveiled by the Prince of Wales the year...

1 subject commemorated, 4 creators