Erection date: 1911
{At the top, with the crossed laurel leaves:}
L.C.C.
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Samuel Phelps, 1804 - 1878, tragedian, lived here.
Site: Samuel Phelps (1 memorial)
N1, Canonbury Square, 8
Erection date: 1911
{At the top, with the crossed laurel leaves:}
L.C.C.
{In the main area:}
Samuel Phelps, 1804 - 1878, tragedian, lived here.
N1, Canonbury Square, 8
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Samuel Phelps
Actor/manager, born in Devonport. In his early working life he worked on the...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Samuel Phelps
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
London County Council Ellen Terry, 1847-1928, actress, lived here.
Site of Newgate, demolished 1777. The Corporation of the City of London
Victoria Park, a park for the people of the East End, begun in 1844. Bow Heritage Trail
The plaque blends in so well with the railings, that it's easily missed.
Note: the colonnade with glazed upper section that fronts this building on Stoney Street was not designed for this location. Londonist i...
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
Unusually the model for this statue is known: Webber. Our thanks to his great grandson, Simon North, for letting us know.