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
The Guardian has a detailed description of the procession from Charing Cross to Buckingham Palace. The war had been won; the Americans h...
Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked...
English Heritage Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1895 - 1967, conductor, lived and died in a flat in this building.
Greater London Council Mustapha Reschid Pasha, 1800 - 1858, Turkish statesman and reformer, lived here as Ambassador in 1839.
English Heritage Enid Bagnold, 1889-1981, novelist and playwright lived here.
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