Site of First Synagogue after the resettlement, 1657 - 1701.
Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Sure looks like a City of London plaque but the text around the edge is different. We're guessing that the Congregation funded the plaque but the City has responsibility for its maintenance.
EC3, Creechurch Lane
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First synagogue after resettlement
A house in Creechurch Lane was converted to a synagogue for the Sephardi Jews...
In 1290 Edward I expelled Jews from England and for centuries, apart from tho...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
First synagogue after resettlement
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Initially called 'sha'arhashamayim', the Gate of Heaven, this was the first p...
Near this site Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling, Alexander Stokes and Herbert Wilson performed experiments that led to...
The plaque is on the pavement by the nearest black and white bollard.
On a cluttered wall, the plaque is the lower one on the right.
This fountain is at the west end of the garden in front of the Town Hall, on Fairfield Street. It is surrounded by memorials as follows: ...
Seems very odd for the chosen illustration to be of a computer game.
Our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, provided the translation and adds: "The quote at the top, 'Sapiens qui prospicit', is the school mot...
Spenser to the left; Bacon to the right. The frieze announces proudly 'Islington Central Library'. Above the keystone of the porch the da...
Lord Mayor, 1990 - 91. Alderman in the City of London in 1996. Made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1990.
Architect and designer. Born Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. In 1874, he travelled to Italy with John Ruskin to study the architecture. He later opened his own architectural practice in London, and in 1...
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