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
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Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Rutland Gate
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the...
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Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Rutland Gate
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post ...
This house seems modest for a man who was so successful, but he was touring a lot of the time, and he moved in before he really hit the b...
No erection date is given but we've guessed that the work was done and the plaque erected in time for the Jubilee in 1977.
Greater London Council Mary Kingsley, 1862 - 1900, traveller and ethnologist, lived here as a child.
Zachary Macaulay (1768 - 1838), philanthropist, and his son Thomas Babington Macaulay, afterwards Lord Macaulay (1800 - 1859), lived here...
Photographed and numbered from north to south. A nearby information board: On your right is the old Roman road to the south coast (now t...
Earl Jowitt, in his Lord Chancellor robes and wig, raises both hands, palms towards us. Behind him stand two carved figures: that on the ...
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