Cobden House
This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and was named after Richard Cobden (1804 - 1865), who was a liberal statesman and a member of the anti-corn laws league.
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E2, Nelson Gardens
See St Peter's Close. As far as we can discover Richard Cobden had no particular association with this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cobden House
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cobden House
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
This plaque is identical to the one at the Community Hall.
Dr Jabez Bunting, 1779 - 1858, leading Wesleyan Methodist, lived here, 1833 - 1858. Historic House - London Borough of Islington
Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf), 1882 - 1941, novelist and critic, lived here, 1907 - 1911. Greater London Council
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
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