Mrs Elizabeth Fry, 1780 - 1845, prison reformer, lived here, 1800 to 1809.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Mansion House Street
This plaque is on the first building in Mansion House Street but actually in St Mildred's Court.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Elizabeth Fry
Prison reformer. Born as Elizabeth Gurney in Norwich into a Quaker banking f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Elizabeth Fry
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Our picture comes from Bitish Pathe. Spitalfields Life have a very good photo of this sign in situ along with a small plaque reading "or...
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, lived in this house, then known as 18 Woburn Buildings, from 1895 to 1919.
That's all well and good, but was there a maze? All that text and not a word about the maze. Elsewhere we've read that 'maze pond' was ...
Totterdown Estate, built 1901 - 1911, influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement using traditional construction skills. 2010
The plaque is on the wall at pedestrian eye height, immediately below the clock. Numbers 384-392 did not become part of the hospital unt...
Author and Shakespearian scholar. Born in Enfield, at the school run by his father, Reverend John Clarke. John Keats was a pupil at the school for about 7 years (1803-10). Charles taught him and e...
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, where his father worked as a stableman and later managed the inn. Baptised at St Botolphs. 1815-16 trained at Guy’s Hospit...
Founder based in Thames Ditton. From Exploring Surrey's Past: The foundry was established in Summer Road, Thames Ditton, in 1874 by Cox and Sons, ecclesiastical suppliers, to cast ornaments and st...
Carmen Isobel Henrietta Aguirre was born in 1899 in Anerley, Kent (now Greater London), the eldest of the three children of Enrique Blas Aguirre (1866-1926) and Henrietta Emma Aguirre née Rogers (1...
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