Erection date: /5/2012
Site of the Jolly Sailor Inn, South Norwood's first public building, 1810.
People for Portland Road
SE25, High Street, 64
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Jolly Sailor Inn
Claimed to be the first public building in South Norwood. When it opened ther...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Jolly Sailor Inn
Group which works for the regeneration of Portland Road and its surrounding a...
The plaque is on the low, angled, wall - angled upwards to catch the rain, hence its poor condition.
Here from 1868 to 1900 lived George James Symons FRS, pioneer in the scientific study of rainfall, founder of the British Rainfall Organi...
English Heritage Charles Eamer Kempe, 1837 - 1907, stained glass artist lived and worked here.
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to promote 'London Bridge City' rather than 'Pool of London'.
This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes must be about 1910. 2020: Terje Hartberg contacted us via Tw...
