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.
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 plaque - gone
Note: this is not Cooks' Cottage - that started life in North Yorkshire and i...
Maritime explorer and cartographer. Born near Middlesbrough. The first to map...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Captain Cook - E1 plaque - gone
2012: This building no longer exists (demolished apparently in 2007) and last time we looked had been replaced with a building site. We h...
Later he lived at later at nearby 1 Camp View.
The unknown crest is probably Plumers's.
The plaque can be seen in our photo between the two lower windows towards the right.
This building was the County High School for Girls opened in 1908. The children's author Winifred Darch (1884 - 1960) was a teacher here....
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor, lived here. Born 1853, died 1937.
Heath's upbringing is described as borderline between the working and middle classes.
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