At Poplar High Street, Woodstock Terrace corner. Listed Grade 2, architects: Hills, Fletcher and Harstons. Built in 1870 for the Poplar District Board of Works, which in 1900 became the Poplar Borough Council. It was extended at the northern end in 1920. In 1938 the council moved out, into the new Town Hall in Bow Road.
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Old Poplar Town Hall
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Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
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John Byford, junior
Alderman, J.P. and Mayor of West Ham in November 1905. London Wikia records: Businessman and local politician. Born Canning Town, he was made a partner in the business founded by his father, which...
1 memorial
Norman L. Hall
Chairman City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee in 1973. Associated with the Company of Butchers. Chairman of the e City of London Clerks' Association 1957-8.
1 memorial
Sir Edwin Chadwick
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
1 memorial
Sir Leslie Boyce
Sir Leslie Boyce, KBE was Lord Mayor of London 1951-2. Born in Australia. Settled in Cheltenham after WW1. Conservative Party politician.
1 memorial
Petronella Cordelia Paton Walsh
Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1950-1. 1964 the Conservative Miss P. C. Paton Walsh was elected onto the newly formed Westminster City Council Source: Wikipedia. Petronella Cordeli...
1 memorial
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poet Laureate. Born Lincolnshire. Wrote 'Morte d'Arthur' (1859-85) about King Arthur and 'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) a long elegy for his Cambridge friend and his sister Emily's fiancé, Arthur He...
5 memorials
Metropolitan Police
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on 26 September of that year, over 1,000 men were sworn in in the grounds of the Foundling Hospital. (From Sarah Wise's boo...
13 memorials
Henry Reader Williams
JP, chairman of the Hornsey School and Hornsey Local Board. Active in the Poor Schools movement, he was an early campaigner for the education and welfare of children. He also led the campaign to ...
2 memorials
Southall rail crash
An InterCity 125 high speed passenger train from Swansea failed to slow down in response to warning signals and collided with a freight train crossing its path. Seven people were killed and 139 inj...
3 memorials
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