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LAMMAS DAY 1892 WHEN THE PEOPLE OF LEYTON LED BY C.G.MUSGRAVE, H.HUMPHREYS AND E.C.PITTAM ASSERTED THE COMMONERS RIGHTS AND SCCESSFULLY RESISTED THE ATTEMPTED ENCROACHMENT UPON THESE LANDS THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE CORPORATION OF LEYTON AND WAS UNVEILED BY MR E.C.PITTAM ON LAMMAS DAY AUG.1ST 1929 Sign on the front of the Eton Manor Athletic Club in Marsh Lane. See Loss of Common Land, Historic landscape in GamesMonitor See also Wikipedia on Hackney Marshes
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