London Borough of Hackney
Edith Cavell. Executed in Belgium by German firing squad for assisting injured soldiers in World War I. Assistant Matron at the Shoreditch Infirmary, 1903 - 1906.
Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels and she figures on our sister site, .
E2, Kingsland Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Edith Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston in Norfolk. At the age...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
If the erection date of September 2009 is correct, it seems rather strange to commemorate the bicentenary four years late. The other plaq...
English Heritage Sir Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford, 1753 - 1814, inventor and adventurer, lived here.
The associated church is Loughton Union/Baptist Church, set back on the opposite side of the High Road. The homes are run by the Lincoln...
2021: Spitalfields Life has a photo-filled post showing the interior of this house which looks unchanged since Garthwaite left.
The Henderson plaque is at number 69, (the yellow building on the left of the photograph) and Palmer's plaque is at number 70 (the buildi...
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