45 Norman Grove. E. Sylvia Pankhurst set up the East London Toy Factory and babies nursery in this house and the building in the rear garden, 1914 - 1934.
The factory was financed by Norah Lyle-Smyth (1874 - 1963).
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Norman Grove, 45
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing worksho...
Painter, sculptor, photographer and suffragette. Born Norah Veronica Lyle-Smy...
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Â Traine...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
The plaque is incorrect in giving Thomas Cubitt as the designer. It was in fact the, unrelated, Sir William Cubitt.
Roy Hattersley, a Bennett enthusiast, unveiled the plaque.
The Nuclear Dawn Mural plaques are on the left side of the building, the muraled side. The other two are on the front. The mural is not a...
Greater London Council George Meredith, O.M., 1828-1909, poet and novelist, lived here.
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
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