Erection date: 19/10/2016
Thomas Barnardo, 1845 - 1905, founder of Dr Barnardo's Homes for children, lived here 1875 - 1879.
English Heritage
This plaque contradicts English Heritage's rules about erecting only one plaque per person, as there is already one for him in E1.
E3, Bow Road, 32
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dr Barnardo - Bow Road
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dr Barnardo - Bow Road
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
This 1897 OS map shows that Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum occupied the land between this alley and Bethnal Green Gardens. The Warburton fa...
A London Inheritance has, again, provided some interesting background, about how this plaque has moved. It used to be below the first flo...
This building has a claim to be London's oldest skyscraper.
Greater London Council Phil May, 1864 - 1903, artist, lived and worked here.
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