{On three marble slabs attached to the base of the cross:}
To the honoured memory of those employees of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington who made the supreme sacrifice during two world wars, 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945.
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Town Hall
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
This stone was erected in 1955 in memory of Robert Smith, John Denley & Patrick Packingham, who were burnt at the stake on Lynch Gree...
The crucifix is supported on a Tuscan column. Some sections of the list of names are so badly weather-damaged that the names there are p...
There are several names at the bottom of the memorial which are not in alphabetical order. Presumably these were added after the memorial...
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to ...
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obelisk may represent the fallen.
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