Coopers Corner
The site of Coopers Hall
1547 - 1940
EC2, Basinghall Street
In our picture the blue plaque is above the orange barriers and the Coopers' Hall memorial is on the low wall to the left, in front of a building inscribed 'Corporation of London'.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coopers' Corner
Lost in the Great Fire. In 1670 a second hall was built on the same site. Thi...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coopers' Corner
Site of St Michael Bassishaw, demolished 1900. The Corporation of the City of...
The plaque is on the brown wall below the gray canopy. August 2018: this building is threatened with demolition.
The same plaque appears on each of the guardrooms.
The base can be seen in our photo immediately behind the 'open book' which is the replacement memorial.
Sir John Betjeman, 1906 - 1984, Poet Laureate and conservationist, lived here, 1973 - 1984.
The lettering on this inscribed stone is delightful: in "THE" the "H" is just a horizontal line joining the "T" to the "E", the two "N"s ...
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