Bobby Abel, "The Guv'nor", 1857 - 1936, one of England's finest ever cricketers, learned his cricket in Southwark Park.
London Borough of Southwark
Voted by the People
SE16, Southwark Park, Cafe Gallery
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Bobby Abel
Cricketer. Born Robert Abel at 18 Commercial Street, Rotherhithe. He was the ...
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Bobby Abel
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Samuel Pepys, 1633 - 1703, diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty, lived here, 1679 - 1688. London County Council
The plaque is a perfectly nice pub plaque but the pub is adorned with many lovely art nouveau images, in metal and stone, of monks either...
Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924
Festival of Britain 1951, 3rd May - 3rd November, site of the Festival Pleasure Gardens 2011. Wandsworth Council
Actually in Upper St John Street. The plaques can just be seen in the site photograph, at the far end of the white building.
