Erection date: 23/11/2003
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342 - 1400, England's greatest medieval poet and author of the "Canterbury Tales".
The Tabard Inn, site from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off in April 1386.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the People
Unveiled by Terry Jones of the Pythons.
SE1, Talbot Yard
The plaque is apparently on the oldest building in Talbot Yard.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in ...
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Laid into the ground on the west side of the war memorial. It's off-centre which suggests more plaques may be planned.
These 11 plaques are laid into the floor of the hall, in a line down the middle, in this sequence, starting at the entrance end: R101; Ha...
{Left hand plaque:} The Nightingale badge awarded between 1925 - 1996. {Central plaque:} The Florence Nightingale Garden This garden cel...
The plaque is on the site of the hospital's open-air ward block.
The Glaziers Hall The land in this area formed part of the site of the cloisters of the Church of St Mary Ouverie, now Southwark Cathedra...
On the pier between numbers 13 and 14: "Shaftesbury House, Hoxton Market Christian Mission".
Apart from their address, we can find no other information about this group.
The plaque is in our picture but it's such a dull day you can't see it. Three more steps and the man will be standing in front of it.
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