Historic Southwark
Here was "Stones End" where "Town Street" met the old turnpike road, one of the parliamentary forts erected to defend London during the Civil War stood here.
SE1, Borough High Street, Southwark Police Station
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Stones End fort
A parliamentary fort erected to defend London during the Civil War. The pict...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Stones End fort
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Sir Victor Horsley, 1857 - 1916, pioneer of neurosurgery and social reformer, lived here. English Heritage
LCC Sir Julius Benedict (1804 - 1885), musical composer, lived and died here.
There must be many men who were awarded the VC, posthumously or not, whose birthplaces are not marked with a plaque. Why this one? His fa...
The stone was laid only 14 days into her 51st year so we're taking this as a late commemoration of her Golden Jubilee. And the remaining...
Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Valerie, and died here 8 years later.
