Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
The Battle of Cable Street
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"They shall not pass"
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grounds.
E1, Dock Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
Mosley planned to march thousands of his British Union of Fascists through th...
Politician and Fascist leader. Born at 47 Hill Street, Mayfair, into landed g...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
English Heritage Guy Gibson VC, 1918 - 1944, pilot, leader of the Dambusters Raid, lived here.
There are identical plaques on both columns at the entrance to the park.
Sir Geraint Evans, 1922 - 1992, opera singer and producer, lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
Al Bowlly, 1899 - 1941, singer, lived here, 1933 - 1934. English Heritage
The SWET plaque is outside. To see the bust, walk to the back of the foyer, turn right, through a door, the bust is immediately on your l...
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