The Clock Tower with its drinking fountains at the People's Palace on Mile End Road, with scaffolding behind and posters advertising classes on the boards to either side

Date:
22 Oct 1890
Location:
Peoples' Palace, Clock Tower, Mile End Road, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority
Reference:
BL10453
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The Clock Tower, designed by E R Robson, was part of the Peoples' Palace, the first part of which opened in May 1887. Subsequent buildings included a library, swimming pool, gymnasium and winter garden. The Clock Tower is inscribed on its western face: 'Presented to the trustees of the Peoples' Palace for the benefit of the people of East London by Herbert Stern Esq in memory of his father, Baron de Stern'.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: A B: Bedford Lemere And Company

Architect: Robson, Edward Robert

Keywords

Victorian Drinking Fountain, Victorian Clock Tower