Sir Henry Busby Bird, J.P, served as the Mayor of Shoreditch a record twelve times. He was knighted in 1919 for his services to the borough and his various charitable contributions to the War effort.

Eric Walrond was a respected and brilliant ‘Harlem Renaissance’ writer with a distinctive style of writing in dialect. His descriptive insights into the daily lives of the people around him addressed issues of race and class.

William Thomas ‘Tommy’ Hall died on April 26, 1949 aged 72 years. His memorial in Abney Park Cemetery was erected by his cycling friends as a tribute to a record breaking and world-famous cyclist on road and track.