Erection date: /5/2011
East Street Market formerly East Lane Market, moved from Walworth Road to its current site in 1880 for the construction of an electric tramway. Continuing to serve.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the people
SE17, East Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East Street Market
There has been street trading in this area since the sixteenth century. The c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East Street Market
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Dame Sheila Sherlock, MD, FRS, 1918 - 2001, world authority on the liver, professor of medicine, lived here 1970 - 2001. City of Westminster
Jet Harris MBE, 1939 - 2011, musician, was born at the former Willesden Maternity Hospital which stood on this site. The Heritage Foundation
Andrew Lang, 1844 - 1912, man of letters lived here in 1876 - 1912. London County Council
The plaque is between the two notices on the white wall.
The two stations are at either end of the Dutchflyer rail-ferry service, via Harwich.
