Erection date: 2002
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon & chemist Henry Stephens, shared lodgings while studying at Guy's & St Thomas' hospitals, (1815-1816).
Guy's & St. Thomas' Charities Foundation
Unveiled as part of the 'Re-weaving Rainbows' event of National Science Week 2002.
SE1, St Thomas Street, 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, wh...
Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. ...
Founded by Thomas Guy in concept in 1721 but it was not until 6 January 1725 ...
Named after Thomas a Becket, so possibly founded after 1173 when Becket was c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
It can trace its origins back to 1553, when King Edward VI re-established St ...
English Heritage has acknowledged that the plaque was erected on the wrong house, and should be where Waugh actually lived, on what is no...
In 2009 Alan Patient reported that "the pub has been boarded up for many months and the plaque removed." 2013: The Victorian Society are...
{Around a pair of clasped hands, the initials PBS and the motto 'Unitate Fortior' (stronger through unity):} People's Building Society.
London Borough of Camden Lord Pitt of Hampstead, 1913 - 1994, physician and civil rights campaigner, worked here, 1950 - 84.
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