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 on the south side of Soho Square (then c...
The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of ...
Born James Scott (or Crofts or Fitzroy) at Rotterdam. Illegitimate son of Kin...
We found each of these civilian casualties in the CWGC database and the make up is interesting: two children (aged 12 and 16); 12 women; ...
The Jewish calendar has a different start year (hence the "5425 - 1665") 3,760 years ahead of the more common, Gregorian, calendar.
London County Council Samuel L. Clemens "Mark Twain", 1835 - 1910, American writer, lived here in 1896 - 7.
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
Designed by Charles Holden and built 1927 – 1929 as HQ for Underground Electric Railways Company of London, the main forerunner of London...
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
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