In 1855, Poplar joined with neighbouring Bromley and Bow to form the Poplar District of the Metropolis. This became the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in 1900. In 1965 it merged with the Metropolitan Boroughs of Stepney and Bethnal Green to form the new Tower Hamlets Council.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Poplar Borough Council
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Poplar civilians killed in WW2
The local listing (which we can no longer access) for this memorial contains:...
Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Poplar Borough Council
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Newby Place graveyard monument
The (rather creepy) Biblical quotation is from the King James Version: John 5...
Other Subjects
Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.
Very successfully pioneered bookshops on railway stations with the business name Horace Marshall and Son. The son being Horace Brooks Marshall, Jnr. Snr. was a Commoner on the Bridge House Estates...
1 memorial
John Bright
Politician. Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws. As a Quaker he was opposed to inequalities between individuals and groups; as a member of a mill-ow...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Barry Jackson
President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in October 2000.
1 memorial
Peter Frank Stott
Civil engineer. Eight years working in Australia. Director of Highways and Transportation at the GLC 1964-67. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1990. Died Devon.
Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Transport, Australia
2 memorials
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Christ Church Spitalfields - alterations
E1, Commercial Street, Christ Church Spitalfields - porch
"Entensive" seems to be a portmanteau (mash-up) of "extensive" and "intensive".
4 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Campaign for Real Ale
An independent consumer organisation based in St Albans, and known as CAMRA. Founded in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland, by a group who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer a...
2 memorials
Poplar Rates Rebellion
Tax protest led by George Lansbury supported by the councillors of Poplar Borough Council. On behalf of Poplar, an extremely poor borough, they held back taxes and were taken to court for non-paym...
1 memorial
Camilla, Queen Consort
Born London as Camilla Rosemary Shand. 1973 married Andrew Parker Bowles, 1995 divorced. 2005 married Prince Charles, when she became Duchess of Cornwall. Promoted to Queen Consort on the death of ...
6 memorials
3 memorials
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