Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Middlesex Volunteers. Later part of 17th Battalion London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) of whom 1,022 soldiers were killed in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
The History of Wapping Trust
Turk's Head Charity
E1, Glamis Road
has a good post on this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
We can find no image of the Drill Hall but have found a "Drill Shed" on a 188...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. Â More informati...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into ...
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council...
The Harmsworth plaque is inside the entrance lobby to the Museum, just to the right of our photo.
Leigh Hunt, poet. Born on October 19th 1784 in a house on this site. Died 1859. Southgate Civic Trust Southgate Reform Synagogue
This building housed the offices of Charles Dickens' magazine 'All the Year Round' and his private apartments, 1859 - 1870.
Dr J. H. Hertz CH, 1872 - 1946, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, lived here, 1913 - 1946. City of Westminster The United SynagogueÂ
We're pretty certain that the blue colour is vandalism, or guerrilla art, if you will.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them