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...
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Chelsea china was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street, 1745-1784. Tobias Smollett, novelist, also lived in part o...
Stanley Hall & Baths This building was erected by E. H. Blunt, 1884.
Odd use of English, using the passive to force the subject to be the market rather than Horner.
For more information about this plaque see the page for its WW1 names. The 1941 bomb fell on the east wing of the Hospital. This was the...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Restored in 1990. Described by Time Out as "this absurd pub, apparently popular with every minor celebrity you can think of". August 2016: Londonist informs that the pub is about to close and has ...
Architect. In the Wikipedia list of his works none are in London.
Has a strong historical connection with the abolitionist movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rev John Newton, a slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist, was rector 1780 – 1807. Carolin...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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