Site of the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys lived and worked. Destroyed by fire 1673.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Seeting Lane
This plaque is attached to a stone hidden in the bushes. But helpfully the man in the red t-shirt and red socks is marking its location and the tourists at the right are pointing at it, or possibly at the socks.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pepys and Navy Office
Built on the site of Walsingham's mansion, this was the Navy Office in which ...
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Born Salisbury Court, where his fath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Pepys and Navy Office
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
We have another page showing the memorial in its new location.
London County Council Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834, poet and philosopher, lived in a house on this site, 1812 - 1813.
Bob Speel informs that this roundel was designed by Lethaby and modelled by Thornycroft.
Apart from the actual names the two plaques are the same. Our photo shows the one on the left.
The Bridge plaque is on the far side of the wall beside the woman's head in our photo. The jubilee plaque is laid into the terrace betwee...
