At Poplar High Street, Woodstock Terrace corner. Listed Grade 2, architects: Hills, Fletcher and Harstons. Built in 1870 for the Poplar District Board of Works, which in 1900 became the Poplar Borough Council. It was extended at the northern end in 1920. In 1938 the council moved out, into the new Town Hall in Bow Road.
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Old Poplar Town Hall
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Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. Â The count o...
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Albert Sciver, B.Sc., F.R.I.C.
Albert "Bill" Sciver was a chemist, bacteriologist and a local politician. Resident of Dolphin Square. 1938 elected to Westminster Council. 1952-3 served as Mayor. Source: London Wik...
1 memorial
Peter Leslie Biroum-Smith
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
William Petty, Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
Born Dublin to a wealthy Anglo-Irish family. Opposed to war with America and during his 7 months as Prime Minister he granted independence to the American Colonies. George III called him "the Jesui...
1 memorial
Henry Gage Spicer
Chairman of the paper manufacturers Spicers, Ltd, and Associated Companies. 1933 Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Owned a country estate, 'Holmwood', Sawston, Cambridge (but we can fi...
3 memorials
1 memorial
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