Erection date: 4/6/2011
Poe
Unveiled by Steven Berkoff on 4 June 2011.
The Flicker Club
The Edgar Allan Poe Society
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 2
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 2
A 'boutique' cinema club based in Stoke Newington that specialises in showing...
Established as a non-profit organisation, it was originally set up to promote...
Actor, playwright, author and director. Born Leslie Steven Berks in Stepney....
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 2
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House...
In 1900 John Lewis erected a new memorial on their building consisting of a bronze half-length profile of Byron placed in an ornate Portl...
Henry Sylvester Williams, 1867 – 1911, anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner. First black councillor in Westminster. City of Westmin...
There was a row of houses here called Hanover Cottages. You can see them on the wonderful Time Travel Explorer map of 1830.
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, w...
MP for Lambeth from 1865, and Lord Mayor 1868-9. In 1887 he and his brother Edwin funded a new building in Kensington for the Unitarians, see Essex Street Chapel. His nephew was Frederick Pethick-L...
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