Hobsons Place
This block was built in 1966 by the Greater London Council and was named after Hobson's Place, which was one of the streets the estate was built over; which had previously been called Pelham Place.
E1, Hanbury Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hobsons Place / Pelham Place
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Our map of 1837 shows a street called Pelham Street. Possibly this became Pel...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hobsons Place / Pelham Place
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
The map gives a clue as to what that 'special relationship' is all about.
English Heritage Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963, poet, lived here, 1960 - 1961.
Our photograph of the Lorraine Wilson plaque was taken before the foliage started obscuring it.
Our photo shows the plaque commemorating the rebuilding of the almshouses. The one commemorating the founding is on another, parallel blo...
The Sun A public house called the Sun stood on this site from at least 1722. In September 1940 a wartime bomb landed on the pub killing 2...
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