Michael Faraday the father of modern electrical science was born near here.
Historic Southwark
SE1, Newington Butts, University of the Arts
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Michael Faraday - SE1
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Michael Faraday - SE1
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
The plaque is on the grass beneath the group of trees in the photograph.
The plaque is on the pavement to the left of the war memorial. More information about the VC plaque project at Centenary News.
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 ...
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says Coward was born at number 5. This house is the end house in a terrace of 7 so we can't ...
The tower in the symbol looks to us a lot like Hackney's St Augustine's tower. Since the Foundation did not come into being until 1916 we...
Abele Giandolini, "Monsieur Abel", opened The Ivy as a cafe on this site in 1917. On-line information about Giandolini is hard to come by. Bonhams sold an Epstein head, "Third Portrait of Jackie (...
Poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. Born as Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth in County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, who was later kn...
Born on Bermondsey Street. Initially worked in his family's wool, skin and fur business. In 1729 he acquired the lease for what would become Vauxhall Gardens and transformed it into a successful, f...
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Civil engineer. His many projects include: with Wolfe-Barry, the 1903 Kew Bridge, over the Thames, correctly known as King Edward VII Bridge; his involvement with the construction of the Barry and ...
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