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...
Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...
London County Council John Burns, 1858-1943, statesman, lived here.
Unveiled to coincide with the start of LGBT month, by Toyah Willcox.
Horace Walpole, 1717-1797, man of letters, lived here.
From the Kew Guild: "The Kew Guild was founded in 1893, as an offshoot of the Kew Mutual Improvement Society (itself created in 1871), with an intention of uniting past and present “Kewites” by mea...
The Elephant and Castle pub was at the corner of Wick Road and Victoria Park Road.
William Napier was born in 1893 in Down, County Down, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), one of the nine children of Alexander Napier (1855-1934) and Hester Mary Napier née Maxwell (1863-1920). In th...
Married to Lord Guilford Dudley. Her husband’s father persuaded the dying Edward VI to declare his two sisters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, which left Jane, on Edward's death, the queen. Mary...
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