Temple Mills

Temple Mills

A district on the boundaries of Newham and Waltham Forest. The name derives from the water mills which straddled the River Lea. Medieval Hackney was largely rural and crops were grown that needed ...

Place, Commerce, Transport

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Leyton Histories

Leyton Histories

We cannot find any group that uses this name, so believe that the erectors are The Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society.

Group, History

1 memorial
Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

Home of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera. Originally built in 1732 as a playhouse. The current building is the third on the site, following the fires that destroyed the first two.

Building, Dance, Music / songs

1 memorial
Bloody Assizes

Bloody Assizes

A series of trials which started at Winchester in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion. Further trials took place at Salisbury, Dorchester and Taunton, and i...

Event, Law

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George Jeffreys

George Jeffreys

Judge. First Baron Jeffreys, known as the 'Hanging Judge'. Born at Acton Park, near Wrexham in Denbighshire. He became Lord Chief Justice in 1683 and Lord Chancellor in 1685. Most famously, he pres...

Person, Law

1 memorial
William Grainger Wilson

William Grainger Wilson

William Grainger Wilson, 1919 - 2013 Grainger Wilson lived at the Hackney Almshouses for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors for 27 years, much of this time as Chairman of the Disabled Soldiers & S...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Louis Stanley Johnson

Sir Louis Stanley Johnson

Solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Member of Hackney Council. Mayor of Hackney 1914-19. MP for  Walthamstow East 1918-24. Knighted 1920. Died by suicide with a gun to his head, at his hom...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

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Disabled Soldiers & Sailors (Hackney) Foundation

Disabled Soldiers & Sailors (Hackney) Foundation

Also known as War Seal (Hackney) Foundation, this scheme was inspired by Sir Oswald Stoll's War Seal Mansions. The Foundation was formed after WW1 by G. F. J. Macleod, after a meeting held at Hackn...

Group, Armed Forces, Social Welfare

2 memorials
George F. J. MacLeod

George F. J. MacLeod

George Francis James MacLeod. Manager of the Hackney Empire. Born in Chorlton in 1870, and married in Leeds in 1893, a commercial traveller in Potternewton, Leeds in 1901. Source: Wikimedia.

Person, Theatre

1 memorial
Councillor David Cunningham

Councillor David Cunningham

Conservative Councillor in Kingston 1994 - 2022.  Made an Honorary Alderman in 2022. Mayor of Kingston in 1998-99.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
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