{Below the arms of the Worshipful Company of Cooks:}
Cooks Hall was built on this site circa 1500 and rebuilt and enlarged 1674. In 1764 a fire partially destroyed the Hall which was again rebuilt but was totally destroyed by fire in 1771.
EC1, Aldersgate Street, 10
The bronze plaque is at the entrance to the building which is the third bay to the right of these two blue plaques.
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Cooks' Hall - bronze plaque
Cooks' Hall was built circa 1500, escaped the Great Fire and was rebuilt and ...
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Cooks' Hall - bronze plaque
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Cooks' Hall - bronze plaque
2022: A London Inheritance drew our attention to the stamp and the text below...
2019: Eileen Brown informed us that this plaque is mentioned in the novel, 'The L-Shaped Room' by Lynne Reid Banks which means it was ere...
We have Sue Thorburn to thank for bringing this plaque to our attention.
Ex-pupil Brian Longman tells us that these two stone plaques, all that remain of the school, were above the entrances. They must have bee...
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