Bermondsey Abbey
The Cluniac (Benedictine) Priory of St Saviour at Bermondsey occupied ground between Bermondsey Street, Abbey Street and Grange Walk. Founded in 1082 it flourished from the 12th to 15th century. This plaque marks the site of the Abbey Church.
SE1, Tower Bridge Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Abbey
Benedictine Priory of St Saviour at Bermondsey occupied ground between presen...
Archer Street Chambers was built in 1882/3 as dwellings for artisans. It was purchased for improvement by the Soho Housing Association in...
A railway signalman controlled the trains by operating the points and signals from a signal box. The job still exists but is now called a...
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
Our colleague Alan Patient took a photo of this plaque in 2008 and tells us it was in excellent condtion. 9 years later. on our visit, th...
We have found that the plaque was unveiled by the Mayor of Greenwich, but there is no indication that Greenwich Council actually erected it.
Engineering research. FRS. Born 75 Kempe Road, Willesden. Carried out research on concrete at first the Building Research Station and then the Road Research Laboratory. During WW2 he was scienti...
Quaker activist and writer. Born near Kendal. Died, unmarried, in Newgate prison and was buried at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
Pioneer in youth work. Born Eleanor Lucy Hicks-Beach, eldest daughter of 1st Earl St Aldwyn. On Valentine's day 1907, just 2 months before laying the foundation stone, she married the Irishman Sir ...
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
Two figures in the sculpture are based on a photograph, “A relief crew damping down in Cannon Street, 17th April 1941” but we cannot find...
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