John Richard Archer 1863 - 1932, Mayor of Battersea, 1913 - 1914 (first black London mayor) had a photography shop and lived here, 1918 - 1932.
Nubian Jack Community Trust
Wandsworth Council EMAS & Heritage Lottery Fund
SW11, Battersea Park Road, 214
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Archer - Battersea Park Road
Political activist. Born at 3 Blake Street, Liverpool. He travelled the world...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Archer - Battersea Park Road
Wandsworth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service. it works in partnership with ...
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (rebranded 2019), formerly the Heritage Lo...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
This tablet commemorates the naming of this building in 1961 after the first Prime Minister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Alexander Ma...
Charming plaque but the history is baloney, according to Gillian Tyndall in her book 'The House by the Thames and the People who Lived Th...
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
There is another copy of this plaque on the other side of the bridge.
