This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
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Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grou...
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed hi...
George Lansbury - E14
Near this place on July 29th 1921 George Lansbury led the people and councill...
Manny Shinwell
The plaque was not there when we first visited the site. We have returned sev...
Other Subjects
Reverend James Palmer
In 1656 he founded almshouses in Palmer’s Passage for six poor old men and six poor old women together with a school for the education of twenty boys. Old maps show these almshouses running most of...
Elizabeth Fry Refuge
Otherwise known as the Elizabeth Fry Institute for Reformation of Women Prisoners. Â JaneAusten (don't ask) gives some information; to quote: "Following {Fry's} death in 1845, a meeting chaired by t...
Lady Workers' Homes Ltd
From The Story of Holly Lodge by Margaret Downing March 2009: "Founded in 1914, LWH provided affordable, well managed, conveniently situated small flats for 'educated women of small means'. The Co...
John Howard
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...
Sir Alan Johnstone
Diplomat. Attended Eton, 1871-7. See his brother Francis for family information. Â Married an American heiress Antoinette Pinchot. His job took him to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Luxemb...

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