Erection date: 1984
This plaque is placed here by the governors and friends of the Lady Eleanor Holles School to commemorate the foundation of the school near this site in 1711.
1984
EC2, Gilbert Bridge
You can just see the left edge of this plaque in our photo, on the pillar at the left.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lady Eleanor Holles School
Founded near what is now the Barbican. One of the oldest girls' schools in th...
This must be the most surreal street in London. It has pavements and kerbs, and a cobbled road-way. So far, so good, but the pavement is ...
The plaque is to the right, inside the door.
George Basevi, 1794 - 1845, architect, lived here. London County Council
L.C.C. Algernon Charles Swinburne, (1837-1909), -poet-, and his friend, Theodore Watts-Dunton, (1832-1914), poet-novelist-critic, lived a...
Trades unionist and politician. Born Emanuel Shinwell in Spitalfields. He first entered parliament in 1922. He campaigned for Britain to support the Popular Front government in Spain against Franco...
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
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