Historic Site
City Pesthouse. Built here in open fields 1593. Used during the Great Plague 1665. Demolished 1736.
London Borough of Islington
Site: City Pest House (1 memorial)
EC1, Bath Street
Historic Site
City Pesthouse. Built here in open fields 1593. Used during the Great Plague 1665. Demolished 1736.
London Borough of Islington
EC1, Bath Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
City Pest House
From Islington:The Pest House was built in 1594, in the fields where Bath Str...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
City Pest House
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
English Heritage Arthur Waley, 1889 - 1966, poet, translator and orientalist, lived and died here.
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left t...
The "plaque" is actually a very dull modern notice inside the arcade so for our close-up picture we've focussed on the classical entrance...
The plaque was originally erected on the house where she had lived. This was later demolished and the plaque re-erected on the replacemen...
It is believed that William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, also worshipped at this Quaker house. Demolished 1807.
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. Niece of her predecessor, King William IV. Her first name was Alexandrin...
Erected by East Germany to isolate West Berlin (run by the US, the UK and France) from East Berlin and the rest of the surrounding East Germany (under control of the Soviet Union). It effectively i...
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
The Friends of Burgess Park are an association of people and other interested groups who are concerned to protect, promote and enhance an important, inner-city London park.
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