Erection date: 2000
Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, 1830 - 1908, first chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade lived here, 1878 - 1891.
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SE1, Southwark Bridge Road, 94, Winchester House
This building was part of the complex London Fire Brigade's HQ and Training Centre.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Eyre Massey Shaw
The London Fire Engine Establishment, formed in 1833 under the leadership of ...
Soldier and fire brigade chief. Probably born at Glenmore Cottage, Ballymore,...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Eyre Massey Shaw
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English Heritage Louis MacNeice, 1907 - 1963, poet, lived here, 1947 - 1952.
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On this site lived William Wilberforce, statesman and emancipator, 1759 - 1833.
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
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Radical, MP and temperance advocate, nicknamed "Dry Wilf". Second Baronet of Brayton.Member of Parliament for Carlisle, Cockermouth, Camborne, 1859-1906. President of the United Kingdom Alliance...
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In our photo both these plaques are behind, and to the right of, the modern standing sign, with the paving stone in the ground directly b...
In 1631 commissioned Inigo Jones to build the residential square at Covent Garden, with a piazza at the centre.
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