This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
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Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grou...
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed hi...
George Lansbury - E14
Near this place on July 29th 1921 George Lansbury led the people and councill...
Manny Shinwell
The plaque was not there when we first visited the site. We have returned sev...
Other Subjects
Northern Outfall Sewer
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...
Shepherds Bush Housing Association
Founded in the late 1960’s by members of St Stephen's Church in Shepherds Bush who were becoming increasingly concerned by the appalling conditions some parishioners lived in. Now known as Shepherd...
Rev. R. Henley
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Listed as "The Hon. and Revd. R. Henley - Incumbent" on the Pest House plaque. Vicar of St Mary's Putney in 1886.
John Howard
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...
French hospital in Bath Street
Founded by royal charter in 1718 to house the poor or infirm of French Huguenot descent. Known as "La Providence". In 1866 the hospital was moved to Victoria Park in Hackney and in 1960 to Rocheste...
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