Erection date: /5/2011
East Street Market formerly East Lane Market, moved from Walworth Road to its current site in 1880 for the construction of an electric tramway. Continuing to serve.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the people
SE17, East Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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East Street Market
There has been street trading in this area since the sixteenth century. The c...
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East Street Market
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
John Alfred Prestwich, 1874 - 1952, inventor and designer of engines, founded J.A.P. Engineering Company here in 1898. Historic Buildings...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
The plaque is located on a block of flats at the far end of a 'gated' estate. Even our longest lens setting could not produce a reasonabl...
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth year as 1723.
The two plaques containing the list of WW1 names are in the porch at the west end, either side of the entrance. The blue plaque to Wilbe...
AC Cars are Britain’s oldest car manufacturers having been producing cars since 1901. Founded by John Weller and John Portwine. The company name comes from an early model, the Auto Carrier, pictur...
Football club based at Stamford Bridge, Fulham. They play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football.
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,...
There has been street trading in this area since the sixteenth century. The current market specialises in African and Caribbean fruit and vegetables and household goods. East Street was, possibly, ...
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