Christopher Pinchbeck, clock maker, 1670 - 1732.
EC1, St John's Lane, 33, Watchmaker Court
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date.
This modern building sports a clock (of course) with Roman numeral hours and, on the side, "XXXIII" or 33, the street number.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pinchbeck at St John's
Clock maker. Invented the alloy of copper and zinc which closely resembles g...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Pinchbeck at St John's
The Hooke plaque is the gray square laid into the pavement in front of the strange modern hut-like structure. The Faryner plaque is on t...
At this date the Chief of Staff was Bramwell Booth.
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
We would not normally have collected this, since it is really just a (not very interesting) foundation stone, but we were pleased to have...
Musician, writer, broadcaster, Benny Green, 1927 - 1998, lived here, 1932 - 1962.
