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...
The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee. De...
Mondrian was in a rented room in this lodging house, with shared bathroom, 1938-40. His room was on the ground floor, at the back. The ...
This plaque is very decorative,with an ornate frame, at the top of which is a roundel showing a stag on a shield. It was perhaps not int...
The plaque is not clear about what was constructed. The piers look original so we guess it was just the gates themselves.
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. We've taken the dates on each plaque to be date of birth and date of death bu...
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