Erection date: 5/6/2008
London Borough of Lewisham
Roy Porter, 1946-2002, historian, lived here, 1946-1959.
Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.
SE14, Camplin Street, 13
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Roy Porter
Historian. Born Roy Sydney Porter at Foxholes, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Publis...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Roy Porter
The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Bor...
Constructed 1907-22. The long station front was designed in phases by James Robb Scott. Only the Victory Arch is listed. At one time thi...
This plaque was unveiled exactly 100 years after the deeds that won Dimmer the VC.
Sir Alec Guinness C.B.E., 1914 - 2000, actor, was born here. The Heritage Foundation
English Heritage Louis MacNeice, 1907 - 1963, poet, lived here, 1947 - 1952.
The plaque is actually high up on the Gracechurch Street frontage. The Cornhill Standard was a water pump, so important that round about...
Byron is shown with his beloved Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had died of rabies at Newstead Abbey on 18 November 1808, and for whom B...
Sea captain. He was commander of the packet ship The Antelope, which was part of the fleet of the East India Company. In 1783 he was shipwrecked off the island of Ulong. After some initial animosit...
Born Putney. Captain in the Dragoons. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Frost-bitten and weak he saw that he was slowing down the whole team and so, o...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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