Erection date: 11/7/1962
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Peabody Donation Fund by George Peabody, London banker and American citizen, this plaque was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on the eleventh July 1962.
SE1, Blackfriars Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peabody Fund - Centenary
Philanthropist. Born Massachusetts, USA, descended from English immigrants to...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peabody Fund - Centenary
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Peabody Fund - Centenary
Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her husband John Middleton Murry, 1889 - 1957, critic, lived here.
Hawkins lived here with his family 1856 - 1872.
The lost Bryant & May testimonial fountain was on the pavement in front of this station.
The web page given on the plaque plots 900 British transport heritage sites on a map and provides information about each one.
Bill Wallis is described on the plaque as 'ARP Stretcher Bearer'. Which we take as a prompt to provide a link to the great Stretcher Rail...
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