Former public house located at 438 Old Ford Road. Sylvia Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes converted it into a day nursery and called it The Mothers Arms.
The photograph does not portray the actual building, but shows how the area looked in the early 1900s.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Gunmakers Arms
Site of "Gunmakers Arms" P.H. Taken over in 1915 by Sylvia Pankhurst and her ...
Founded in 1796 by a Mr Wright, whose son, W. H. Wright carried on the business. It started in a part of Chelsea known at the time as Cook’s Ground, which by the time of this 1865 map had been redu...
In 1897 J. Lyons and Co. secured an 80 year lease on this site from the Worshipful Company of Drapers and built the restaurant in the basement with offices above. The restaurant opened in 1900 and ...
Ice was cut in Norway, transported by ship to London, stored and then distributed by cart to restaurants and homes. See the picture source website for a very well told story.
Created by Lord Frederick Roberts as the ArmyTemperance Association by amalgamating two other long-standing temperance associations all based in garrison towns. He also created the ArmyTemperance A...
Caledonian Cattle Market, built in 1855 by J. B. Bunning, and demolished after WW2. Caledonian Market was held in the area now partly occupied by Caledonian Park, the large area bounded by what ar...
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