Erection date: 5/12/1990
Ravenscroft Park
This park was opened on 5th December 1990 by Dr David Bellamy for the people of Bethnal Green with thanks to the Monument Trust and the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association for assistance with grants.
Bethnal Green Neighbourhood
E2, Columbia Road, Ravenscroft Park
The plaque is on the low, angled, wall - angled upwards to catch the rain, hence its poor condition.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ravenscroft Park
Environmental campaigner and botanist. ÌýBrought up in London. ÌýBuilt up a med...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ravenscroft Park
British History has a map showing how in 1986 Tower Hamlets divided itself up...
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It faci...
At the time this intersection was known as Clapham Cross. Lambeth have a photo of the unveiling, where we learnt that "The tower was dis...
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
New Cross (Equitable) Building Society was established in 1866 but did not move into this building (and presumably erect the shield) unti...
Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, w...
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