In a house on this site Samuel Pepys, diarist, was born, 1632 - 1703.
The Corporation of the City of London
Ralph Stephen draws our attention to the birth date on this plaque, 1632, when Pepys was actually born 23 February 1633. He surmises that the error is due to someone forgetting to make the correction necessary after 1753 when the start of the year was moved from March to January.
EC4, Salisbury Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Samuel Pepys - EC4
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Born Salisbury Court, where his fath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Samuel Pepys - EC4
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
The board is not visually very interesting so we photo'd the church window instead.
Grim's Dyke was designed by R. N. Shaw in 1872 for Frederick Goodall. He sold in 1880 to Robert Herriot of Hambros Bank from whom, Gilber...
Sam King M.B.E., born 1926, Mayor of Southwark, 1983-84, wartime R.A.F. serviceman, passenger on the Empire Windrush, West Indian communi...
The plaque is at the centre of the ground underneath the projecting Alderman's Court. Wikipedia's page for the architect Richard Gilbert...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Architect and collector. Born in Goring-on-Thames, son of a bricklayer. Architect of the Bank of England, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, St. John’s, Bethnal Green and his own tomb. He also rebuilt mu...
Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Peter Brian O'Connell Hutchins, to locate the s...
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. We've taken the dates on each plaque to be date of birth and date of death bu...
We cannot explain what this plaque is doing here. The MAIDIC is mentioned in the London Gazette of 12/6/1928 in connection with the land...
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