Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House School (1817 - 1820), which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Stoke Newington Church Street, 172
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years befor...
Author and poet. Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he added Allan to h...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Poe Unveiled by Steven Berkoff on 4 June 2011. The Flicker Club The Edgar All...
Other sources give varying opening and closing dates for the depot.
It was here that she taught, amongst others, Marie Rambert, Margot Fonteyn, Alicia Markova, and Anton Dolin, many of whom went on to danc...
Arthur Onslow (1691 - 1768), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1728 to 1761 lived in a house on this site. (1926)
Gustav Holst, 1874 - 1934, composer, wrote The Planets and taught here. English Heritage
{Above a stylized picture of two performers:} Palace Theatre Built for Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1891 by T E Colcutt and known as the 'Roya...
This was a good, well-designed, commemorative stone. But then (we surmise) one of the committee people realised that their efforts had ...
Jacqueline du Pre, 1945 - '87, cellist, lived here, 1970 - 1975. Heath and Old Hampstead Society
In the back garden of the pub so we've no idea how we spotted it. But once we had we couldn't not collect it - very unusual.
Psychoanalyst who works near West Smithfield and is interested in local history. He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the 1381 revolt took place and where T...
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Edward Henry Snook was born on 16 April 1904 in Limehouse, the seventh of the eleven ch...
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