Historic Southwark
Site of St Thomas' Hospital, 1225 - 1865. The first printed bible in English was produced here 1537 A.D.
SE1, Borough High Street
Not one of London's most charming corners.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Thomas' Hospital and bible
James Nicholson, a printer residing at St Thomas' Hospital was granted a lice...
Named after Thomas a Becket, so possibly founded after 1173 when Becket was c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Thomas' Hospital and bible
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
The location was Greig's mother's shop, opened in 1870. The address then was 3 St Mary's Terrace.
The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...
That shape at the top of the stone (filled in with cement, we think) would have been used to hold an identifying shield, possibly lost fo...
James Clerk Maxwell FRS King's College London Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1860 - 65 The Institute of Physics
English Heritage Sir Archibald McIndoe, 1900 - 1960, reconstructive surgeon, lived here in flat 14.
