Erection date: 2006
Alfred Bestall, 1892 - 1986, illustrator of Rupert Bear, lived here 1936 - 1966.
English Heritage
KT5, Cranes Park, 58
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alfred Bestall
Children's comic strip character. Created by the artist Mary Tourtel. In 1935...
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He s...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alfred Bestall
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
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College of General Practitioners Sir James MacKenzie F.R.S., 1853 - 1925, physician, lived and worked here, 1907 - 1911.
Totterdown Estate, built 1901 - 1911, influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement using traditional construction skills. 2010
Harold had been king for less than two years when this visit was made.
See Anne Boleyn's plaque for when/how this plaque was displayed.
Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace (Londonist has a good post about this), the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.
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