Friends meeting house. This building was the Peckham meeting house of the Society of Friends 1835 - 1962, attended by eminent quakers including Elizabeth Cadbury, social reformer and Arthur Eddington, astronomer.
Historic Southwark
SE15, Highshore Road, 2 - 4, Royal Mail Delivery Office
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessm...
Philanthropist. Born Elizabeth Mary Taylor at 3 Elm Place, Peckham Rye. She a...
Astronomer. mathematician and physicist. Born Arthur Stanley Eddington in Ken...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
The spelling is probably a good indication of which country funded this memorial.
In Satellite view it looks like there's a giant chess board in the back garden.
The mosaic on the path depicts the leaves of the different trees in the immediate area, with the text "Where We Live 2003" but it does no...
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
Brunel's engine house The tunnel shaft and pumping house for Marc Brunel's tunnel was constructed between 1825 and 1843. This was the fir...
Founders and President and Honorary Secretary of the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple.
Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.
