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
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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...
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Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Frankie Howerd OBE, 1917 - 1992, comedian lived here, 1966 - 1992. The Dead Comics Society
To the glory of God and in memory of our fallen comrades this stone was laid by Mr Thos. Anthony, July 19th 192? {The stone is badly vand...
Lopping Hall stretches between the High Street and Station Road, where there is a foundation stone. See there for more information about ...
C. S. Forester, 1899 - 1966, novelist, lived here. English Heritage
The bronze of the plaque is so dulled that it does not photo well, all except this somewhat distressed enameled insignia.
Son-in-law to Agatha Christie, being the second husband of her only child Rosalind.
2 July 1993 at the Hotel Madimak in Sivas, Turkey, people had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal {poet executed c. 1560} festival. A mob set fire to the hotel killing 35 people, mostly Alevi (a loca...
Builder active in 1885. Nominative determinism strikes again - see Isambard Brunel for more examples.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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