Flats built in honour of Judge Thomas Hughes. On 27 March 1945 part of the building was destroyed by the last V2 rocket to hit London (another one fell on Orpington, Kent on the same date), killing 134 people. The damaged flats were eventually rebuilt.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hughes Mansions
In memory of the 134 men women and children who were killed March 27 1945 whe...
Vollasky House This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council and wa...
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In records prior to 1800 their names made it is easy to confuse the house that stood here with another which stood at what is now Pitzhanger Park, about a mile to the north. In 1768, George Dance ...
Home of the High Commission of Australia. Designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie and built by Dove Brothers. Construction commenced in 1913, but as many of the building materials came from Austra...
A major construction firm with its own Wikipedia page. Henry Thomas Holloway and Henry Holloway based in Battersea. Later other brothers joined. Our picture shows a house they built in 6 days insid...
Builders. The brothers George and William Haldimand, along with Alexander Louis Prevost, were responsible for much of the construction of the terraces of Belgrave Square.
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