The site of Bakers Chop House, 1695 - 1928.
EC3, Change Alley
The history of this area (with a plan!) is given in a leaflet published in 1969 by Martins Bank, who were taken over by Barclays at that time.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bakers Chop House
A tavern/restaurant at 1 Change Alley. 2019: We were kindly contacted by Ray...
This is an unusual plaque - painted on a large wooden board that looks like it was intended to be somewhere more populated, holding more ...
He lived here for nearly 50 years from 1936 until his death in 1983.
The Lido Pavilion was built in 1930 to provide mixed bathing and sunbathing facilities. As the First Commissioner of Works, in the Depres...
This plaque is noticeably larger than the standard plaque and we can see no reason, unlike the huge plaque for the Notting Hill Carnival ...
All these memorials are in the back garden of the museum which is a tight space and, much as we'd like to, it's impossible to provide a p...
He was a Member of the Royal Academy. The picture is a self-portrait. Much information about this sculptor can be found on his Wikipedia page, on the Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculptur...
The Environment Agency gets the date wrong but we assume the rest is correct: "On 12th January 1928, numerous areas in London and the surrounding local authorities were flooded. In Lambeth, 14 peop...
Born Bermondsey. Andrew Behan's researches have found that when he was baptised on 7 April 1872 at St Mary Newington Church, Lambeth his date of birth was recorded as 3 September 1860. Lots of inte...
Chairman of the statue Committee at Woolwich town hall in 1905. The Church Bells of Kent refers to an Alderman George Kelham of Riverston, Wrottesley Road, funding a bell for St Margarets church, ...
Dance band leader. Thought to have been raised in Stamford Hill. Toured Britain with the young Vera Lynn. Temporarily retired to Hertfordshire to escape the WW2 air raids. When his music went o...
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