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Plaque

James Middleton House

Erection date: 13/9/1952

Inscription

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
James Middleton House
This stone was laid by the Mayor Councillor Mrs B. L. Tate, JP, LCC, 13th September 1952
Housing Committee: Councillor A. Stocks - Chairman; Alderman P. J. H. Benenson - Vice-Chairman; the Mayor, and Alderman H. P. Wilson JP.
Councillors: {a list of 16 names - see Subjects commemorated}

Donald Hamilton, Wakeford & Partners - Chartered Architects
F. H. Bristow, LLB - Town Clerk
Watson Strother, AMICE, MJ.MUNE, ARICS - Borough Engineer & Surveyor

We've given the inscription as "Donald Hamilton, Wakeford & Partners - Chartered Architects" but it's actually carved as  "Wakeeord" - whoops.

Site: James Middleton House (1 memorial)

E2, Middleton Street, James Middleton House

The address of James Middleton House is Middleton Street but the stone is actually in Punderson's Gardens.

We think this development must be named for James Smith Middleton (1878 – 1962), a journalist and political organiser best known for serving as the General Secretary of the Labour Party.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
James Middleton House

Subjects commemorated i

Donald Hamilton, Wakeford & Partners

Architects. Donald St Aubyn Hamilton (1907–1956). From 1934 Hamilton worked f...

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Peter James Henry Benenson

Peter James Henry Benenson was born as Peter James Henry Solomon on 31 July 1...

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F. H. Bristow

Town Clerk of the Bethnal Green in 1952.

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Councillor A. G. Clark

Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor...

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Eugenie Katherine Dewsnap

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952. Eugenie Katherine...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
James Middleton House

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Councillor Mrs Beatrice Lilian Tate

Beatrice Tate School (41 Southern Grove, E3) has researched their namesake an...

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