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...
This strange structure is an accumulator, basically a huge hot water tank, like you may have in your house somewhere in a nice warm cupbo...
English Heritage Sir Basil Spence, 1907-1976, architect, lived and worked here.
It is known (from British History On-line) that in 1912 properties in Gilston Road were renumbered, but the details are not given. One ca...
Foundation Stone laid by Raymond Denham Poland Esquire, master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, 22 October 1932. Sir Horace Hamilt...
Dr John Alcindor, 1873 - 1924, physician, Pan-Africanist and WW1 local hero, had his surgery here, 1913 - 1924. Nubian Jak Community Trus...
Designed for himself by Scott, this neo-Georgian building won the 1928 RIBA architectural medal, displayed at the centre of the first flo...
First erected in the second of St Thomas’s three courts, shown in a drawing here. In 1841 the block separating the first two courts was d...
Composer. Born Jerome David Kern at Sutton Place, New York City. Studied music in New York and Heidelberg. He worked his theatrical apprenticeship in New York and London. His first complete score f...
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
English Heritage Ada Countess of Lovelace, 1815 - 1852, pioneer of computing, lived here.
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