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...
Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site of the gruesome and prolonged public beheading of Lord William Russell in 1683, after he was convicted ...
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
Gavin Ewart, 1916 - 1995, noted poet, FRSL, lived at Kenilworth Court. The Putney Society
The foundation stone is immediately to the right of the central entrance. Above the entrance: "Westminster Public Library, The united pa...
The exterior boasts (at least) two copies of this plaque, both positioned below what's visible in our photo.
Founder of Henrietta Barnett School for Girls and Hampstead Garden Suburb. The picture shows Henrietta with her husband Samuel Barnett. Born Henrietta Octavia Rowland. With her vicar husband she c...
British antiquary and collector. Curate at St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1851-8. Rector at St Pauls West Hackney 1872. Member the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Linnean Society and the Roy...
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