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
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
English Heritage Charles Rolls, 1877 - 1910, pioneer of motoring and aviation, worked here, 1905 - 1910.
The London Borough of Hackney Jeremy Feakes, 1972 - 2007, designer, entrepreneur and founder of the Urban Golf Tournament, lived here.
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on Gibbon.
This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged. While the tall, three-storey building to the left looks ver...
The plaque has the name as "Spier and Pond" but this should read "Spiers and Pond".
During WW2 the US armed forces worshipped at the Grosvenor Chapel and partied at Rainbow Corner. This seems a good place to mention the searchable on-line honour roll of 28,000 Americans based in ...
Established the first antique shop on Portobello Road according to the plaque but we can find no corroborating evidence.
Anthony Sainte Croix Rose was born on 17 February 1910 in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, the son of Harcourt George Sainte Croix Rose (1883-1955) and Florence Norah Rose née Deane (1884-1970). The bi...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
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