Site of the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys lived and worked. Destroyed by fire 1673.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Seeting Lane
This plaque is attached to a stone hidden in the bushes. But helpfully the man in the red t-shirt and red socks is marking its location and the tourists at the right are pointing at it, or possibly at the socks.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pepys and Navy Office
Built on the site of Walsingham's mansion, this was the Navy Office in which ...
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Born Salisbury Court, where his fath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Pepys and Navy Office
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
Harry Beck, designer of the 1933 London Underground map, lived here, 1936 - 1960. The Finchley Society 2003
A network of almost secret passageways and a courtyard link Suffolk Street to Whitcomb Street. The passageway containing the two plaque...
Frederick George Creed, 1871 - 1957, electrical engineer, inventor of the teleprinter, lived and died here. Greater London Council
Remaking English reports on the plaque unveiling and informs that this 1905 school building is the only surviving block from the original...
Co-founder and funder (with Alfred Beit) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Damstadt, Germany, came to London in 1871, and, acting as a diamond agent, went to Kimberly in South Africa. Re...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Germany, South Africa
As we photographed the nearby Cable Street plaque a 'person of the street' approached and told us about another plaque, down a dark alley...
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