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.
SW7, Rutland Gate
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Rutland Gate
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 - Rutland Gate
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post ...
Jewish cryptographer, Leopold (Leo) Samuel Marks, MBE, lived in flat 410 Park West, when Chief of Codes at Special Operations Executive (...
Our page for the monument in nearby Finsbury Square lists the 43 people.
Harry Beck, designer of the 1933 London Underground map, lived here, 1936 - 1960. The Finchley Society 2003
Greater London Council Major-General William Roy, 1726 - 1790, founder of the Ordnance Survey, lived here.
Craigie Aitchison, RA, CBE, 1926 - 2009, painter, lived in this house from 1963 and died here.
