Erection date: 9/5/1964
{The top plaque:}
These flats erected for the Stoke Newington Borough Council were opened by Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont on the 9th May 1964.
{The lower plaque:}
They were refurbished for the London Borough of Hackney and reopened by her daughter Julia McNeal on 18th August 1997.
N16, Stamford Hill
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesof london.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hugh Gaitskell House
Statesman. Born London. Labour MP and leader of the party from 1955 until his...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hugh Gaitskell House
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Formed from the Vestry of Stoke Newington Parish in the County of London, and...
Politician. Born Dora Creditor near Riga, Latvia, and known as Anna. Her fami...
Elder daughter of Hugh and Dora Gaitskell. NPG have a photo of the family wit...
Dave Shepherd, Britain's acclaimed jazz clarinettist and bandleader, was born here on 7th February 1929. Waltham Forest Heritage
Oops! The plaque has 'Issac' rather than the more common 'Isaac' and we can't find any support for this odd spelling. Hope no one lost th...
1739 was the year after Wesley's 'Aldersgate experience' and the year in which he formed the Methodist Society in England. It's not the y...
Born 1881, editor of Punch, 1932 - 1949, E. V. Knox (Evoe), essayist and poet, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1971.
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