The "Queen's Head Inn", owned by the family of John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, formerly stood here.
Historic Southwark
SE1, Borough High Street, 103
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
One of the most prestigious American universities, located in Cambridge, Mass...
Coaching Inn. It's origin is uncertain, but in the 15th century it was owned ...
A plaque inside the library provides the following: “John Harvard was born in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Robert Browning lived in this house 1887 - 1889, from here his body was taken for interment in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey.
2023: Lionel Wright has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St Andrew's Holborn was not destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666....
Lopping Hall stretches between the High Street and Station Road, where there is a foundation stone. See there for more information about ...
2011 Kilburn Times reported: "The former site of the Grunwick factory, off Chapter Road, Dolis Hill, will be renamed Grunwick Close, to c...
The foundation stones are listed here left to right. They were laid in October 1889 and the building opened in April the following year....
Site of the Medical Society of London 1787 - 1850 gifted by a founder, John Coakley Lettsom MD FRS. City of London
Scholar, writer and mountaineer. Born in Kensington Gore, (now 42 Hyde Park Gate). Father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. He became an Anglican clergyman but later renounced his religious belie...
Thousands of men and women died in the Arctic Convoys,1941-5. WW2DB gives these stats: "In total, 104 Allied merchant ships were sunk with the arctic convoys, along with 18 warships; 829 merchant ...
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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