
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Tower Hamlets
- Town
- Poplar
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 23 June 1919
Attended by: MAJ. GEN. E.B. ASHMORE M.V.O., D.S.O., C.B.
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 56716
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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
- Figure of an angel atop a square pillar, the upper part of which is shrine-like with four short black marble pillars. The faces of the shrine carry the commemoration (beneath a carved representation of the seal of Poplar Borough Council) and the names of the children, all in raised, black lettering. This then stands on a five step, square, stone base, the lowest step being black, the rest white.
- Inscription
- Shrine 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 Shrine Sides: [Names] Front face, base, middle step: ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRITION Front face, base, next to bottom step: A. R. ADAMS/ POPLAR
- 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
- Pillar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Figure
Measurements: height 10ft OA
Materials: Stone - Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Pillar
- 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]
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- 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.
- "War memorial to the children of Upper North Street School." Historic England, historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065215. Accessed 6 October 2024.
- Our website www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.56672/fromUkniwmSearch/1
- Our website www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.63088/fromUkniwmSearch/1
- Buildings of England series by Various London 5 East (2005) p.650
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