Arthur Deakin House
This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council and was named after Arthur Deakin (1890 - 1955), who served as General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union from 1940 until his death in 1955.
Tower Hamlets Community Housing THCH
E1, Hunton Street, Arthur Deakin House
We have found no particular connection between Deakin and this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Arthur Deakin
Former London borough which is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union, 1940 until hi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Arthur Deakin
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
Not to be confused with Harrow School of Art. this is Harrow School's art department, hence the artists's memorials. The two busts are o...
The spelling of "honor" is not a mistake on our part.
So, is this the "centre" of London? Londonist provides some alternatives.
English Heritage Sir Henry Cole, 1808 - 1882, campaigner and educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, lived here.
Near this site William Holman Hunt O.M., artist, was born, 2nd April 1827.
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