Erection date: 2006
Harry Cole, voluntary worker, policeman, writer, attended this school, 1934 - 40.
London Borough of Southwark
Voted by the People
SE1, Lant Street, Charles Dickens Primary School
The building has some other, architectural, plaques which read:
School Board for London
Lant Street School 1877
SLB Lant St. School enlarged 1901
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Harry Cole
Born 48A Lower Road, Rotherhithe. Married and joined the Met Police in 1952. ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Harry Cole
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Harry Cole
In 1824, aged 12, Dickens lodged in Lant Street in a house belonging to the V...
Cruikshank lived here for 25 years. The plaque was unveiled by Betjeman in 1973.
The street number is actually on the door in Roman figures, XIV, which is very unusual.
Greater London Council Sir Robert Smirke, 1781 - 1867, architect, lived here.
At the War Memorials Register we learn that, since we visited, laminated signs have been attached to the cages around the 13 trees, givin...
The first birth control clinic was opened by Dr. Marie Stopes in 1921 at Holloway and removed here in 1925.
