Erection date: /6/2007
City of Westminster
Gas light & Coke Company, 1813-1937, site of a gasworks which provided the first public supply of gas in the world.
Unveiled by councillor Carolyn Keen, Lord Mayor of Westminster.
SW1, Seacole Building, Great Peter Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighti...
Founded by Frederick Albert Winsor (who also gave the world's first demonstra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
The plaque can be seen in our photo, below the street lamp.
Prior to about 1840 this site was occupied by Wellington Cricket Ground. The almshouses were built as part of a complex of buildings inc...
London County Council Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834, poet and philosopher, lived here.
About Cooper Close Co-operatives UK gives: "... the estate has 63 properties, ranging from one bedroom apartments to two bedroom maisonet...
Sargent travelled a lot between USA, England and Europe but settled in London in 1886 initially at (what is now) 33 Tite Street, extendin...
The cartouches are on the two gables on the front elevation. Speel informs that the relief and the plain inscribed stone were moved here ...
Our picture source, HSomerville provides a thorough history of this area and says "St Saviour's Dock was created in the 13th century by the Cluniac monks of Bermondsey Abbey."
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