Erection date: 1996
Mervyn Peake, 1911-1968, author and artist lived here, 1960-1968.
English Heritage
SW10, Drayton Gardens, 1
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mervyn Peake
Artist and writer. Mervyn Laurence Peake was born on 9 July 1911 in Kuling, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mervyn Peake
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The plaque refers to 'wall mounted artworks' but we did not see any on our visit in 2012, unless the plaques now in the ground used to be...
In the correspondence pages of the 1927 BMJ the man named on the plaque, Francis Gregg, had a spat with Mr Bishop Harman (of St Thomas' H...
On this site stood the Paragon Works of the Brilliant Sign Company. Formed in 1888, the company patented the 'brilliant letter' shop sign...
Benjamin Britten, composer, 1913 - 1976, and Peter Pears, singer, 1910 - 1986, lived and worked here, 1943 - 1946. City of Westminster In...
Dr Edith Whetnall FRCS, 1910 - 1965, consultant audiologist who pioneered the treatment of deaf children and founded an experimental host...
George Godwin, 1813 - 1888, architect, journalist and social reformer, lived here. Greater London Council
A strange memorial. The little roof and pillars make this look as if it could originally have been the entrance to the building. But with...
Sir Clarendon Hyde, the deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1920.
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Stanley Lupino (1893 - 1942) actor & comedian, lived here. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America
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