Erection date: 2006
Peter House
This block was built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing and named after Peter Piaktow, who was known as Peter the Painter, the antihero of the nearby Sidney Street Siege.
Tower Hamlets community Housing THCH
E1, Commercial Road, Peter House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
We are indebted to Derek Smith for the following write-up of the siege: The S...
Not everyone was happy that Hackney named a block of flats after this anarchist.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peter Piaktow and Sidney Street Siege
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
Formerly Motograph House (possibly numbered 2-6) in West Street, this building's address is now Guild House, Upper St Martin's Lane and i...
The house was 5 Whitehead's Grove - you can see a short terrace of houses here on this 1865 map.
Unusually, we did not take these two pictures; they come from John Newbery a descendant of the man commemorated. We were delighted to fin...
{On front of plinth:} William Edward Forster, born July 11 1818, died April 5 1886. To his wisdom and courage England owes the establis...
The foundation stone is directly below the Shepherd memorial. Both can be seen to the right of our photo, on the stair tower, partially h...
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