{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 ...
Statues flank this central panel. The bases of both are inscribed: Albert Toft, Sc. 1921. One is a winged angel writing in an open book (...
It's certainly a vent shaft for the car park beneath, but this column, or rather the flaming urn, is apparently also a memorial, accordin...
The lower section of the cross is inscribed with a list of 18 names. There is no heading but we think "WW1" is a fair guess, confirmed by...
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
The Fitzwilliam Museum has a page showing an original medal and: "The victory of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 led to the first British Ar...
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