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...
Bruce Kenrick, 1920 - 2007, founder of Notting Hill Housing Trust and Shelter, lived and worked here from 1962 - 1982.
Both memorial stones were originally located in the nearby St James's Church (in Fore Street, south of Cowper Road), which has been conve...
Pte Sidney Godley, 1889 - 1957, awarded the first V. C. of the great war 23 August 1914, lived here. Loughton Town Council 2000
A report in the London North Middlesex Standard And Tottenham And Wood Green Echo of 13Â September 1901Â describes the unveiling as being "...
A network of almost secret passageways and a courtyard link Suffolk Street to Whitcomb Street. The passageway containing the two plaque...
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