This building was erected in 1774 to accommodate the six clerks of the King's High Court of Chancery when they moved from their old office in Chancery Lane. The six clerks were abolished in 1842-5-6 Vict.C.103.
WC2, Stone Buildings, 10
When, on the opening of the Law Courts in 1882, no 10 became vacant the Inns of Court Rifle Corps moved in.
Lincoln's Inn provides a good history of Stone Buildings.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chancery
Originally in offices in Chancery Lane, the six clerks of the King's High Cou...
Janet Johnson (1858 - 1955) pioneer welfare worker. Lived at 39 Redcross Way. She became the first woman Guardian of the Poor in Southwar...
The University has a grainy film of the ceremony when this stone was unveiled. It was a very grand occasion, attended by 3,000 people in...
The blue plaque is next to the lower right window of the building, and the foundation stone is on the right of the doorway. The Hunt and...
We captured the plaque in 2011 but failed to take a photo of the building showing the plaque in situ. It was 2017 before we managed to re...
Our second attempt at photographing this house, no better than the first. We are always there on very sunny days and either get glare or...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Watchmaker and inventor. Probably born in Bodmin, Cornwall (his birth year is approximate). After being apprenticed to his clockmaker father, he worked in the Netherlands. He was the first to desig...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
We think this group is now (2015) called Veolia.
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