Leyton Histories
Gunpowder production at Temple Mills led to a tragedy in 1690, when Peter Pain, a Huguenot refugee was blown up together with two of the mills, three stone houses, and a lot of gunpowder.
Erected between June 2014 and June 2015. Lost between April 2019 and March 2021.
E11, High Road, Leyton
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Temple Mills
The thousands of building workers who have lost their lives at work. Researc...
A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minist...
A district on the boundaries of Newham and Waltham Forest. The name derives f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Temple Mills
We cannot find any group that uses this name, so believe that the erectors ar...
This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hurricane during the night of 15/16 October 1987. Trees donate...
From Islington Tribune, 2021: "Residents living nearby saved it six years ago when rumours spread it could be turned into “just another c...
{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of London coat of arms:} Southwark Bridge Re-built by the Bridg...
Not an easy monument to photograph, as it is about 50 feet from the nearest vantage point, with a closely monitored Ministry of Defence c...
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is one way of expressing 'peace' in Japanese.
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