Dr Johnson
Johnson was a good friend of the Thrales who owned the Anchor Brewery which once occupied this site. We've read that this image was the trademark for the brewery (or its successor Barclay Perkins) but we can't corroborate that.
SE1, Porter Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anchor / Barclay Perkins Brewery
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
Thrale.com states that the Anchor name was acquired during Child's ownership,...
The current building is named after A. R. Martin, who died in 1974 but who contributed so much to Blackheath life, being a founder member...
One wonders where the pump had been 1904-79, and how did Mrs Reeves acquire this delightful gothic artefact. At the Enfield Society we s...
The front gable is decorated with the date of the building: 1883.
This photo, the only close-up image we can find of this lost plaque, is from Sputnik Mediabank where it is captioned "Memorial plate on d...
The plaque carries a QR code that provides smartphone users with audio and visual information on the area’s history, and pictures of the ...
The idea of the fire fighters volunteering to assist Britain was developed between the British government and the then Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King. The Canadian fire fighters museum web...
L.C.C. John Hughlings Jackson, (1835 - 1911), physician, lived here.
Politician and army officer. Born Henry Sidney (or Sydney) in Paris. Entered parliament in 1679 and was one of the group known as 'The Immortal Seven', who invited William of Orange to take the thr...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, Ireland, Netherlands
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
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