Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engineering designs made the Mulberry Harbour and the D-Day landings of 1944 possible.
London Borough of Newham - Heritage Project
E6, Montpelier Gardens, 93
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Major Allan Beckett
The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in...
Civil engineer. Born Allan Harry Beckett in East Ham. He designed the 'whale'...
Temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom in WW2 for the ra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Major Allan Beckett
West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Bor...
Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painters, Vladimir and Elizabeth Polunin.Â
The church plaque is below the large wooden cross. the twinning plaque, unusually large, is on the wall to the right, below the tree.
The house was 5 Whitehead's Grove - you can see a short terrace of houses here on this 1865 map.
Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...
Greater London Council John Tallis, 1816 - 1876, publisher of London street views, lived here.
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