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...
This plaque is extremely difficult to read, especially at the top. It is also rare, being, as far as one can tell, a private plaque comme...
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some detailed research on these names and also found a newspaper report of the incident at Trove (The...
Jacqueline du Pre, 1945 - '87, cellist, lived here, 1970 - 1975. Heath and Old Hampstead Society
The SWET plaque is towards the left of the building. The nude lady plaque is over at the right, near the corner. The grand entrance with...
Greater London Council Henry Mayers Hyndman, 1842 - 1921, socialist leader, lived and died here.
