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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Tower Hamlets
- Town
- Poplar
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War - civilians
- Maker
- Mr A R Adams and Son
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 23-06-1919
Attended by: MAJ. GEN. E.B. ASHMORE M.V.O., D.S.O., C.B.
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 56716
Current location
Poplar Recreation Ground
East India Dock Road
Poplar
Tower Hamlets
Greater London
E14 0BP
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 37727 80947
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Angel on a 4-sided pillar, the upper part being shrine-like with 4 short black marble pillars. On a white stone stepped base.
- Inscription
- Front face: IN MEMORY OF/ 18 CHILDREN/ WHO WERE KILLED/ BY A BOMB/ DROPPED FROM A/ GERMAN AEROPLANE/ UPON THE L.C.C./ SCHOOL - UPPER/ NORTH STREET-/ POPLAR - ON THE/ 13TH OF JUNE 1917./ ALFRED H. WARREN O.B.E./ MAYOR/ J.BUTEUX SKEGGS./ TOWN CLERK Front face, base: ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRITION/ A. R. ADAMS/ POPLAR Sides: (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, year died, place of death, forename, manner of death, age of death
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War - civilians
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: height 10ft OA
Materials: Stone - Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Pillar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Figure
- Listing information
- War memorial to the children of Upper North Street School
- Grade II*
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Upper North Street School Children
- WMO ID: 69078
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 20-01-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Comments: Full list of costs published in East End News, 7 Oct 1919
Memorial: £218.10s.6d plus foundation for memorial £11.3s.6d.- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Part of the fund endowed two cots, one in the children's ward of Poplar Hospital, and another in the Lord Mayor's Home for Crippled Children at Alton. The balance paid for three graves for 16 of the victims in the East London Cemetery, th other two being - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- LONDON'S OPEN AIR STATUARY by GLEICHEN 201 Source: Image Library Published:LONGMAN'S, GREEN & CO 1928 LONDON
- A P Hyde: 'The First Blitz' (2002) pp.156-7 and plates.
- Our website www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.56672/fromUkniwmSearch/1
- Buildings of England series by Various London 5 East (2005) p.650
- Our website www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.63088/fromUkniwmSearch/1
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