This plaque commemorates the bicentenary of the birth of Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), who introduced pillar boxes to the United Kingdom in 1852.
In 1855 this street became one of the first in London to have a pillar box.
5 similar plaques have been erected.
EC4, Fleet Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Fleet Street
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Fleet Street
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post ...
Charles Sargeant Jagger 1885 - 1934, sculptor, lived and died here. English Heritage
Sir Edwin Arnold, (1832-1904), poet and journalist, lived and died here. L.C.C.
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph of it was taken some years ago), We have contacted Stephens House, who tell us that it...
The Library Time Machine has a good post on St Mary Abbots itself.
