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Sir Humphrey Gilbert ( 1539 - 1578), the exponent of opening up the Northwest Passage lived here. This inspired Martin Frobisher to sail to Greenland returning with a mysterious black rock. Gilbert set up the Society of the New Art with Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester who had their alchemical laboratory in Limehouse. However their attempts to transmute the black rock into gold proved fruitless. (Humphrey's brother Adrian Gilbert was reputed a great alchemist and worked closely with John Dee.)
Saint AnneAnna also known as Saint Anne is known by tradition as mother of The Virgin Mary. According to the Gospel of James, Anna and her husband Joachim, after years of childlessness, were visited by an angel who told them that they would conceive a child. Anna p's church, Limehouse was built by Nicholas HawksmoorThe career of Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 25 March 1736) formed the brilliant middle link in Britain's trio of great baroque architects. Hawksmoor was characterized by Howard Colvin as "more assured in his command of the classical vocabulary than th. A pyramid originally planned to be put atop the tower now stands in the graveyard. The church is next door to Limehouse Town HallLimehouse Town Hall has been through several changes over the years. It currently houses The Boxing Club. In the past it has been the National Museum of Labour History The Hall is 125 years old. London architecture.. For several years this housed the National Museum of Labour History and included trade union banners and other artefacts including the table that once belonged to Peter KropotkinPrince Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin ( December 9, 1842 February 8, 1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of what he called " anarchist communism": the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a c, the RussianThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With Anarchist PrinceFor other meanings, see Prince (disambiguation). A prince (from the Latin princeps is a male member of royalty or a royal family. A female prince is known as princess . Although this is the most commonly understood definition, there are also different sys. Now it is the home of the FacultyUnix FreeBSD workshops, Boxing Club and the Space Hijackers. Across the road is the Sailors' Mission , where the Situationist International held its conference in 1960. The building subsequently became a run down hostel for the homeless which became notorious for its squalor.The Limehouse area was also notorious for opium dens in the late 19th century. This notion of limehouse as a lurid, crime-ridden area was often featured in pulp fiction works by Sax Rohmer and others. Like much of the East End it was a focus for immigration, particularly by Chinese people. As the community prospered it moved west to the current Chinatown in Soho.
Limehouse library has a statue of Clement Attlee, who was Member of Parliament for Limehouse from 1922 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951.
On January 25, 1981 MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen made the Limehouse Declaration from Owen's house in Limehouse, which announced the formation of the Council for Social Democracy in opposition to the granting of block votes to the trade unions in the Labour Party to which they had previously belonged. They soon became leading politicians in the Social Democratic Party.
From Sunday May 11 to Sunday June 15, 2003 the Cartographic Congress , a meeting of maps and mapmakers from all corners of cartography took place in Limehouse Town Hall.
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