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...
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema, 1996 Bob Hope, actor and entertainer, born here, 29th May 1903. In association with the British Fi...
English Heritage James Robinson, 1813 - 1862, pioneer of anaesthesia and dentistry lived and worked here.
Frank Bates, 1889 - 1921, vocalist and lead singer with pioneering jazz ensemble the Southern Syncopated Orchestra, resided here, 1918 - ...
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
