Erection date: 1934
Edgar Wallace, reporter. Born London 1875. Died Hollywood 1932. Founder member of the Company of Newspaper Makers.
He knew wealth & poverty, yet had walked with kings & kept his bearing. Of his talents he gave lavishly to authorship - but to Fleet Street he gave his heart.
Aged 11 Wallace was selling newspapers on this corner.
EC4, Ludgate Circus
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Edgar Wallace - EC4
Prolific writer: crime, novels, journalism, plays films. Born 7 Ashburnham Gr...
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Edgar Wallace - EC4
We originally photo’ed this plaque in 2009 on the previous building at this site. In September 2013 Rocker Ages sent this link showing t...
Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
These trees were planted in the memory of the 13 children who died in the New Cross fire on the 18th Jan 1981.
Our thanks once again to David Hopkins for his generosity with his Latin knowledge.
London County Council Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834, poet and philosopher, lived here.
