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...
We believe the parish referenced here is the one associated with St James's church in Piccadilly. In our photograph, just one resident ha...
There was another plaque to Grimaldi's home very close by.
The image on the plaque is taken from Merry-Go-Round, Mark Gertler's 1916 painting, possibly inspired by the roundabout at the annual Ham...
Born Cincinnatti USA 1926, Caroline DeCamp Benn, author teacher and socialist, lived and worked here, died London 2000.
Music-hall singer. Born Ernest Augustine Elen at 103 Pulford Street, Pimlico. He started performing in public houses in 1891, singing songs about working-class life. Moving on to the stage, he beca...
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