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...
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Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Music hall artiste Hetty King (1883 - 1972) lived here. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America
David Hopkins has kindly provided the translation for us. Dave says "I was puzzled by the word Nidianus/i, which appears after his name a...
{On the front of the plinth:} Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke {Right side of plinth:} Chief of the Imperial General Staff, KF, GCB...
Greater London Council Sir Robert Smirke, 1781 - 1867, architect, lived here.
Site of St Mary Moorfields, Pro Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church 1852 - 1870. Corporation of London
Instituted as Rector of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1857 and still in place in 1877. At some point he was rector of Finchley and Rural Dean of Highgate. Married to Mary Anne Crofts. A man with t...
"In use in the 18th and 19th centuries" so the dates we give are very approximate.
Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 1845 - 1940, electrical engineer, lived and worked here, 1891 - 1939. English Heritage
AIDS victim. Born Terrence Lionel Seymour Higgins (known as Terry) in Priory Mount Hospital, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. He joined the Royal Navy, but as a gay man, he came into conflict with the...
