Erection date: 11/6/2011
Near this site during the Peasants' Revolt, 1381, Highbury Manor was burnt and destroyed.
London Borough of Islington
Islington People's Plaque
Plaque unveiled by Tony Benn.
N5, Highbury Park, 26, Highbury Barn Pub
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peasants' Revolt & Highbury Manor
It was built for the Lord of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem. The site may...
The revolt grew out of the increasing severity of the poll taxes imposed on t...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peasants' Revolt & Highbury Manor
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Peasants' Revolt & Highbury Manor
We cannot explain what this plaque is doing here. The MAIDIC is mentioned in the London Gazette of 12/6/1928 in connection with the land...
Ellen Terry, the great actress, lived here from 1904 to 1920.
English Heritage Alfred Waterhouse, 1830 - 1905, architect, lived here.
The plaque is not clear about what was constructed. The piers look original so we guess it was just the gates themselves.
English Heritage John Desmond Bernal, 1901 - 1971, crystallographer, lived and died here.
