Erection date: 28/9/2013
Cyril Mann, 1911 - 1980, painter and sculptor, lived and worked here, 1956 - 1964.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
Mann lived here in a very small flat, only 500sq ft. But it had superb light for his work.
WC1, Cruickshank Street, Bevin Court
Bevin Court was designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton in 1954. Commons Yale has some photos of the splendid staircase.
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Cyril Mann
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Cyril Mann
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
The plaque blends in so well with the railings, that it's easily missed.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says she was born at number 21, not 1 as on the plaque.
Odd that the plaque gives the 19th and not the 18th as the date.
In the photograph of the building the plaque is at the corner, behind the right-most man of the group of three.
We are not aware of any evidence connecting Rogers with this particular site in Wapping.
