Erection date: 2005
{Above the Millwall Football Club shield and lion symbol:}
Millwall (Rovers) Football Club was founded on this site by workers from the Morton's Jam Factory in 1885.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
E14, Westferry Road
The plaque is on the pavement by the nearest black and white bollard.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Millwall Football Club - E14
Football club. Founded as Millwall Rovers, the club has retained its name des...
The production of jam was actually a minor function of this factory, as it pr...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Millwall Football Club - E14
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Sir Arthur Keith, 1866 - 1955, distinguished physiologist and anthropologist, lived here, 1908 - 1933. London Borough of Islington Histor...
2019: Ann Pearson wrote questioning the absence of any reference on the plaque to William Godwin and Mary Shelley. We'll redress that omi...
Edward Ardizzone, 1900 - 1979, artist and illustrator, lived here, 1920 - 1972. English Heritage
This was the third site of the Founders Hall which was built here 1985-7. The two plaques are either side of a very impressive solid woo...
Don't get us wrong, we do like Hammersmith Bridge, but all his bridges look rather samey, don't they?
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