Erection date: 1903
Memorial to Alice Maud Denman and Peter Regelous who lost their lives in attempting to save others at a fire at 423, Hackney Road, on the 20th April 1902.
Borough of Bethnal Green
Erected by public subscription.
C. E. Fox - Mayor
R. Voss, Junr - Town Clerk
Site: Denman fountain (1 memorial)
E2, Cambridge Heath Road, Museum Gardens
gives "The tragedy had a great impact on the area and the funerals of the victims were attended by massed crowds. A fund was set up by the Mayor of Bethnal Green 'in aid of the sufferers by the fire' ... to which the Princess of Wales {at the time this was Mary of Teck} contributed a cheque for £10, and the memorial drinking fountain, with commemorative plaque, was erected the following year, in 1903."
The site of the fire, between Dinmont Street and Pritchard's Road, is about half a mile to the north.
This memorial is only a few yards away from another memorial to people who died in a fire trying to save others, a hundred years earlier: Faust and Meere.
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