Erection date: 1862
Putney Labourers Cottages
Erected on land belonging to the Pest House Charity AD 1862.
Administrators: {list of 5 names}
Trustees: {list of 12 names, 2 repeated from above].
{See Subjects Commemorated for the names.}
SW15, Commondale
Faded London have done some great research on the history behind this plaque.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Putney Pest House Charity
John Lindley, 1799 - 1865, botanist and pioneer orchidologist, lived here from 1836 and died here. English Heritage
The plaque is around the corner, visible from Highshore Road.
Greater London Council Mary Kingsley, 1862 - 1900, traveller and ethnologist, lived here as a child.
This site was formerly occupied by the Red Hall Picture Palace. Built in 1913, the Red Hall was part of the first wave of new British pic...
Sculptor. Born Wiltshire. His son, J. H. G. and his grandsons, J. H. and A. B., all became sculptors. John Wesley died at home, Swiss Cottage, Jardin Street, Albany Road, Camberwell.
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Located in Merrion Square West, Dublin. The engineer William Dargan, wanting to emulate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, set up an art exhibition in a series of pavilions. Such was its succes...
Socialist politician and campaigner. Born Nottinghamshire. Largely self-educated. Came to London as a young man. Joined the Labour party and the South Place Ethical Society (of which he later becam...
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