Erection date: 1995
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Commercial Street, Spitalfields Market
The plaque is in the pavement very close to the corner of the fruit and vegetable market building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Apples and Pears
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Sp...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Apples and Pears
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
Why, you ask, is this plaque attached to a low, free-standing, purpose-built pillar thing rather than to the building? Because the build...
Sir Thomas Dewey, 1840 - 1926, lived here for many years. He was a champion for Bromley and pioneered public health and education improve...
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
The small Seaward plaque is on the green door. The Northern Line plaque is immediately inside the entrance to the tube, on the left.
Lord Mayor 1893-4. According to Wikipedia he so impressed the Belgians during a state visit that they named a street in Antwerp in his honour as 'Rue lord mayor Tyler' but GoogleMaps knows nothing...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Unveiled by the Duke of Connaught and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. This i...
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