Erection date: 1995
We failed to find this plaque in Dec-Jan 2017 so are grateful to Spitalfields Life for their photo.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Middlesex Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Purse and Coins
By 1608 this street was known as Peticote Lane for the second-hand clothes, e...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Purse and Coins
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
At our request Rosemary and Richard Christophers of The Lightbox, previously Woking Museum, put paid to the rumour that the plaque is hel...
Greater London Council Sir Richard Arkwright, 1732 - 1792, industrialist and inventor lived here.
The lamp here has lost its blueness. Caroline's Miscellany explains that the practice of hanging blue lamps outside police stations start...
Referring to the plaques, as viewed by the people in our photo who are reading them the right way up: At the left: George V Silver Jubile...
Initially the only information we had about this poignant memorial came from Islington's Management Plan for the garden (2017 'page not f...
The building contains a staircase down to the tunnel and pedestrian footpath. The photograph is of this airshaft's partner on the north bank.
The sundial's own website has been usurped by the usual smut, but London SE1 has a report of the unveiling. The sundial is on a concrete ...
The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. They are the result of a 2018 design competition organised by ...
Sir Michael Costa, 1808 - 1884, conductor and orchestra reformer, lived here, 1857 - 1883. English Heritage
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...
