Erection date: 2013
On 10th March 1613 William Shakespeare purchased lodgings in the Blackfriars gatehouse located near this site.
City of London
EC4, 7 St Andrew's Hill, 7
Various sources identify Shakespeare's house, the gatehouse, as having been on the site of what is now the Cockpit pub at this junction, rather than the building with the plaque.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Shakespeare's house - Blackfriars
This was initially part of Blackfriars Priory. From St Etheldreda: From abou...
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Shakespeare's house - Blackfriars
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
This house probably looked OK when it was part of a terrace but on its own it just looks weird.
Now, where's the best place to attach this plaque? Oh, there's a lamppost close up to the building - let's put it behind that. Sigh.
Joseph.Mallord.William.Turner. landscape.painter. B.1775. D.1851. lived.&.worked.in.this.house.
The English Heritage listing does indeed say "Benjamin Rule" but we are assuming that is a mistake since Rules themselves say Thomas (Be...
This plaque must have originally been erected on the Church Street building, and brought here when the residents moved in 1974.
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Smee: Fireman Alfred Charles Smee was born on 16 September 1921 and his birth was registered in Islington. He was the t...
The unveiling is reported at The Music Hall Guild. The plaque is just visible in our picture, in the porch.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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