Greater London Council
Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
Site: Sir Alexander Fleming - SW3 (1 memorial)
SW3, Danvers Street, 20a
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Greater London Council
Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
SW3, Danvers Street, 20a
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Alexander Fleming - SW3
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered pe...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Alexander Fleming - SW3
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The Independent reported the unveiling. We thank our colleague Alan Patient for these photos.
Spenser to the left; Bacon to the right. The frieze announces proudly 'Islington Central Library'. Above the keystone of the porch the da...
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
By 2017 two non-memorial plaques had appeared: a bronze rectangle in the portico, which reads: "The pedestrian access through the main gu...
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...
Incorporated by royal charter in 1854, possibly on 7th April. Still operating in 1928.
We photographed the plaque some years ago, but did not get a picture of the building on which it was located. We have checked around the ...
LCC John Howard, 1726 - 1790, prison reformer lived here.
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