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 ...
The cheerful quotation is from Proverbs 9:10 and also 1:7.
Leigh Hunt, poet. Born on October 19th 1784 in a house on this site. Died 1859. Southgate Civic Trust Southgate Reform Synagogue
Kennedy plaque to the right, Morgan's to the left. The Royal College of General Practitioners has a good page on the history of 13-14. In...
Henry Labouchere, 1831 - 1912, radical MP and journalist, lived here 1881 - 1903. English Heritage
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