On this site stood the Pall Mall Restaurant where the Rugby Football Union was founded on the 26th January 1871.
Installed in or before 2012.
SW1, Cockspur Street, 1, Oceanic House
August 2022: we were informed that this plaque had gone, while the building was undergoing some sort of transformation. By September it was back. Our thanks to Lionel Wright for that information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rugby Football Union
Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rule...
“High tension” is the same as “high voltage” - dangerously high electrical energy which require particular safety measures.
C. A. Robinson & Co. This stone was laid by C. A. Robinson Esq. A. C. Robinson Esq. K. Motley Esq. December 7th 1953.
A pleasingly unofficial blue plaque - a rather emphatic layout with the letters practically breaking out the circle.
In our picture the plaque is above the poster which the man is walking past.
The rather odd wording of the plaque is explained by an item in the RSC Historical Group Newsletter, February 2010. As part of National S...
The area in and around the Tower which was free from the jurisdiction of the City of London. Initially the Liberties of the Tower were restricted to the area within its walls and the land on Tower ...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
Founded by Thomas Guy in concept in 1721 but it was not until 6 January 1725 that the first sixty patients were admitted. Aim 25 have a good summary of the history. Guy's and St Thomas' are consi...
Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 times in the period 1330-6, and had his house on the west of what is now Laurence Pountney Hill. He founded Corpus Christ...
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