Kennington Palace stood here from c. 1350 - 1531 built by the first Duke of Cornwall later called The Black Prince.
SE11, Kennington Lane, 154 - 182, Edinburgh House
Diamond Geezer reports "... the triangle of land bounded by Kennington Lane, Cardigan Street and Sancroft Street remains under the control of the Duchy of Cornwall to this day .."
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Kennington Palace
Royal Palace. Records of the time indicate that Edward the Black Prince was b...
Edward, Duke of Cornwall and Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. Eldest son of Kin...
The location is where he spoke to the people of the town from outside the Victoria Buildings, (now a branch of Marks and Spencer).
The Croydon Guardian tells about this building being home to the 144-year old family furniture business House of Reeves. Both these plaqu...
In our photo the plaque is on the wall facing left. The original front door was almost certainly on the corner of the building, facing th...
English Heritage Paul Nash, 1889 - 1946, artist, lived in flat 176, 1914 - 1936.
This area has been totally redeveloped and we understand that the developers funded this long overdue plaque. On the day we visited a med...
Infantry regiment of the British army. Originally a militia raised to build a network of roads, it became known as the Black Watch because of the dark green tartan with which they were issued. It w...
Born Spitalfields. A child prodigy, Bentham went to Oxford University aged 12. He chose not to practice law but to comment on it, institutions and society in general. He is associated with the doct...
There seems to be confusion between this building on St Leonard’s Street, demolished c.1900, and Bromley Hall, which is still extant on the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road. The normally very trustwo...
We can find no confirmation that More lived at Eltham, though he probably visited his daughter, Margaret Roper, at her home there. From e...
Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, Henry Bishop, Postmaster General, 1660-1663. The post office was receiving complaints about late arrival of the post. ...
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