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.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

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.

The following text comes from RSPCA-Australia: On the evening of the 16th June 1824, a number of distinguished people, including William ...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

View on map

Edward McKnight Kauffer 1890 - 1954, Marion Dorn, 1896 - 1964, designers, lived here in flats 139/141. English Heritage

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

The address is also home to the Keeping Gallery which displays works by both artists. For many years after Charles' death, Renate gave ta...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

The modern information board at the entrance to the gardens gives the following: "No. 4 (built 1728): Home of the Astor family for thirty...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Reardon Street was previously Broad Street. Bligh’s house is long gone and the plaque is on what was once the perimeter wall of Western D...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map