Erection date: 29/4/2010
City of Westminster
This building was the site of the Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post, 1794 - 1834.
W1, Gerrard Street, 39
This building was the first to operate solely as a public post office in Westminster.
It was this article in Londonist that drew our attention to this further addition to the plaque bonanza in Gerrard Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Penny post - Westminster
Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post. The first ...
First established in London in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partn...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Penny post - Westminster
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
London County Council John Burns, 1858-1943, statesman, lived here.
The phrase "Those that do teach..." is a quote from Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona, Act 4 Scene 2.
Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society confirms our link to the 4th Earl.
The first birth control clinic was opened by Dr. Marie Stopes in 1921 at Holloway and removed here in 1925.
We came across a reference to this HQ in the memoir “My Candle at Both Ends” by John Carveth Wells (1911 – 1946). Aged 12 his mother too...
1971 - Construction work begins with an estimate of 6 years to completion. 1982 - Barbican opened by The Queen. Londonist have found a map that shows the Barbican overlaid on top of the old street...
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Nursing Sister Alice Violet Hallam was the eldest of the four children of John Bough Hallam (1835-1909) and Alice Aldersley Hallam née Adam (1845-1910). Her birth was registered in the 2nd quarter ...
Actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer with professional name Stephen Fry. Born on 24 August 1957, the second of the three children of Alan John Fry (1930-2019) and Marianne Ev...
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