Site of Bradbury & Evans, printer and publisher of Dickens and Thackeray, 1847 - 1900.
City of London
Oh, dear, what is happening to the City plaques? This one looks really cheap, and the letter spacing is dreadful: Br A Dbury, Dick Ens, Th Acker Ay? We've seen better lettering on handwritten notices in the local newsagents.
EC4, Fleet Street, 78, Chronicle House
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Bradbury & Evans
Founded by William Bradbury (1800-1869) and Frederick Mullet Evans (1803-1870...
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, ...
Novelist. Born Calcutta, full name William Makepeace Thackeray. Best known f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bradbury & Evans
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bradbury & Evans
The more standard pub signs show a rather cartoony head and shoulders of HH, with his dates. We have failed to find out why this pub is n...
From: British History: "This building was erected in 1851 as a school by the Congregationalists of the adjoining Horbury Chapel. The arc...
English Heritage Sir Alexander Korda, film producer, worked here, 1932 - 1936.
Greater London Council Gus Elen 1862 - 1940, music hall comedian, lived here.
Chandler lived here, 1900 to 1905, while a day pupil at nearby Dulwich College, overlapping by a term, but never meeting, with fellow stu...
