Erection date: 2009
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This building stands on the site of the former coach-house of Monmouth House, constructed in 1681/2 for James, Duke of Monmouth, eldest illegitimate son of King Charles II, who was executed three years later following an abortive rebellion.
W1, Bateman's Buldings, 9-11
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Monmouth House
The Duke of Monmouth obtained a site in Soho Square in 1681 on which the hous...
This all took place between Lyme Regis and Bristol, and finished at the battl...
Born James Scott (or Crofts or Fitzroy) at Rotterdam. Illegitimate son of Kin...
Site of "White Hart Inn", immortalized by Shakespeare in "Henry VI" and Dickens in "Pickwick Papers". Historic Southwark
The plaque has the name as "Spier and Pond" but this should read "Spiers and Pond".
Orwell was in lodgings here for a brief period: from late 1927 to Spring 1928, when he moved to Paris.
Oh dear, get the wording wrong on a plaque and people are still sniggering years later. We hope "those who have sought relief from suffer...
This plaque is extremely difficult to read, especially at the top. It is also rare, being, as far as one can tell, a private plaque comme...