John Cranfield, clock maker, 1770 - 1790.
EC1, St John's Lane, 33, Watchmaker Court
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date.
This modern building sports a clock (of course) with Roman numeral hours and, on the side, "XXXIII" or 33, the street number.
March 2016: Google Street View has this whole house fogged out. Someone ever so important must live there.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth year as 1723.
Although we have not been able to find this plaque we have not marked it as 'lost', believing it to be on some part of the site not avail...
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some detailed research on these names and also found a newspaper report of the incident at Trove (The...
