Site of the French hospital founded by royal charter in 1718 to house the poor or infirm of French Huguenot descent. In 1866 the hospital was moved to Hackney and in 1960 to Rochester in Kent.
EC1, Bath Street, St Luke's Primary School
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
French hospital
Founded by royal charter in 1718 to house the poor or infirm of French Huguen...
French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. The name emerged in 1560 b...
This portion of the building was destroyed by German bombing on the night of 27th September 1940, restored in 1948.
The (lack of) punctuation on this plaque makes it easy to misread.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
The Close just south of this spot has been named Nina Mackay Close. Incidentally, opposite the southern end of Arthingworth Street there...
On their excellent page about Blackwell Hastings Women's History have a paragraph about two Hastings plaques for Blackwell, one still on ...
That looks to us very much like the bust that Maisky and his wife unveiled at Holford Gardens, unfinished of course.
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban District until 1974, when Epping Forest District Council was created. Loughton Town Council was established in 1996.
The Vestry of Bermondsey was incorporated in 1855. In 1889 it became part of the County of London and then in 1900 the Vestries of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe were joined to form the Metropolitan Bo...
Founded at Hyde Park Corner by Richard Tattersall (1724–1795) it stayed in the Tattersall family until about WW2. The business had to move from 'the Corner' due to the lease running out and the la...
Daughter of Sir Thomas More. After her executed father’s parboiled head had been displayed on a pike at London bridge for the required month, she bribed the keeper to give it to her. She pickled it...
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