In grateful memory of Alderman Charles Fisher Yates JP, an ardent worker for and benefactor of the West Hackney Almshouses, who passed away on the 2nd February 1945.
This memorial is from Commercial Motor Users of Hackney who have established a fund, the income of which is to be distributed to the residents of the almshouses annually, to perpetuate the memory of a very dear friend.
E5, Northwold Road, West Hackney Almshouses
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Yates
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas...
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor, on the left) at t...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Yates
The name suggest a group of local business people coming together around the ...
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716 - 1783, landscape architect lived here, 1764 - 1783. English Heritage
From Carnegie Legacy: "One of the 3 libraries in Hackney designed by Edwin Cooper (the other 2 are Homerton, and Dalston library (demolis...
Unveiled by Griff Rhys Jones, who claims not to actually be Welsh despite his name and having been born there.
The names are grouped by brief company identifier, which we’ve recognised as follows: B&S - Butterfield & Swire CN Co - China N...
Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939, founder of psychoanalysis, lived here, 1938 - 1939. English Heritage
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