Plaque

(lost) Captain Cook - E1 - lost plaque

This terracotta-coloured plaque is now in Australia (see eHive) with one of the chimney pots. See Captain Cook's house for information and a photo of the house with plaque.

Our image comes from the Spitalfields Life article.

Site: Captain Cook’s house - E1 (2 memorials)

E1, Mile End Road, 88

The address was 7 Assembly Row when Cook and his family moved in, 1764.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Captain Cook - E1 - lost plaque

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Captain Cook's house

Note: this is not Cooks' Cottage - that started life in North Yorkshire and i...

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Captain James Cook

Maritime explorer and cartographer. Born near Middlesbrough. The first to map...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Captain Cook - E1 - lost plaque

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Captain Cook - E1

Captain Cook - E1

{Left-most panel:} He surveyed the St Lawrence River in 1759. In three voyag...

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Nearby Memorials

St Saviour's Church - Lewisham - WW1

St Saviour's Church - Lewisham - WW1

SE13, Lewisham High Street, 175

Lewisham War Memorials have researched all the names on this memorial.

War dead | WW1
45 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Sun Yat-Sen

Sun Yat-Sen

WC1, Warwick Court, 4

A London Inheritance has a photo of this plaque shortly after its unveiling on a remaining wall of a bombed building.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Indian doctors in the NHS

Indian doctors in the NHS

NW1, Euston Square, 30

We only know about this plaque from an article in the 24 November 2019 Hindustan Times, whence our photo. "The Royal College of General P...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Merchant Taylors' School

Merchant Taylors' School

EC1, Charterhouse Square

Not a good choice of stone for a plaque.

1 subject commemorated
Lenthall Works

Lenthall Works

E8, Richmond Road, 440, Passing Cloud

The few references we can find to "Lenthall Works" have a double "l" so there seems to be an error on the plaque. We attempted to resear...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators