William and Ellen Craft, black American former slaves and campaigners against slavery, lived in Cambridge Grove, 1857 - 1867.
Shepherds Bush Housing Association
Craft Court 1995
W6, Cambridge Grove, Craft Court, Shepherds Bush Housing Group
See Ellen and William Craft - blue plaque for the other plaque in this road.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ellen and William Craft - Craft Court
Slavery abolitionist. Born in Clinton, Georgia. She and her husband William w...
Slavery abolitionist. Born in Macon, Georgia. He and his wife Ellen were ensl...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ellen and William Craft - Craft Court
Small apartment block in Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith, named for William and ...
Founded in the late 1960’s by members of St Stephen's Church in Shepherds Bus...
Sir Charles Barry, 1795 - 1860, architect, lived and died here. L.C.C.
The plaque was originally installed in the old library in Downham.
The plaque is very similar in style to these erected by the City of London, (example) but the erectors are staying anonymous.
There is another identical plaque (not photgraphed) on the other side of the viaduct, to the right.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
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