Croydon Palace
A former residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury (The Great Hall rebuilt between 1443 - 1452) now the home of Old Palace of John Whitgift School. Open to the public on various days.
Conservation work supported by the Friends of the Old Palace Croydon under guidance from English Heritage.
CR0, Old Palace Road, Old Palace of John Whitgift School
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Croydon Palace
The summer residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury. The Manor of Croydon w...
A nursery, preparatory and senior school, founded by the Sisters of the Churc...
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the 'Primate of All England', serving as the ...
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
A registered charity founded in the 1960s, with the twin aims of raising mone...
A lovely and unusual plaque - we cannot discover when, nor by whom, it was erected.
The presence of this memorial here is explained by Teacher Trail 8: Hunt "lived for the last six years of his life at 7 Cornwall Road (no...
This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accidentally attached it too low on the wall and then quietly swea...
Wollstonecraft attended this church from 1784.
The plaque can be seen in our photo, above the left-most car.
William Ewart, 1798 - 1869, reformer, lived here. London County Council
Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library.
In spite of the plaque's claim, there is evidence of a cash dispensing machine being used in Tokyo in 1966. The invention of the British version has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of the pri...
Born in Streatham. He enlisted in the 13th Battalion (Wandsworth) East Surrey Regiment and was sent to France in June 1916. On 24th April 1917 at Villiers-Plouich, his troop's advance was held up ...
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