Plaque

(lost) Society of Industrial Artists and Designers

Inscription

In this tavern the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers, founded 1930, was first conceived during 1929.
Incorporated by Royal Charter in 1976.

EC4, Fleet Street, 22, Ye Olde Cock Tavern

We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone.

2021: we returned to find a new, brass, plaque in place with the same wording, bar the heading. So we've added that to this page.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Society of Industrial Artists and Designers

First conceived during 1929 as the Society of Industrial Artists with an inau...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Society of Industrial Artists and Designers

{Same as on the lost plaque but without the heading.}

The quotation compares The Cock with Vauxhall Gardens.

LCC William Hazlitt, 1778 - 1830, essayist, died here.

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Sutton's local list gives: "Russettings is a large house built in 1899 on a three-quarter acre plot at 25 Worcester Road. It was one of t...

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Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...

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This site has evolved over the years from flowers place around the tree to become the shrine that it is today. The steps were probably i...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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The plaque was stolen some years ago. In 1994 (300th birthday) the Voltaire Foundation got it put back.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

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