Erection date: 1887
Spitalfields Market
Rebuilt by Robert Horner during the year of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1887.
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
E1, Commercial Street, Spitalfields Market - Horner Buildings
The 1885-93 buildings bearing the plaque were designed by George Sherrin for the owner Robert Horner. Spitalfields Life has a good appreciation of the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spitalfields Market - Horner - started
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Sp...
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on...
Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Ess...
A London Inheritance has old photos and more information about this church.
This is an unusual plaque - painted on a large wooden board that looks like it was intended to be somewhere more populated, holding more ...
Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, w...
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) antarctic explorer, lived here. L.C.C.
Dickens re-edited Grimaldi’s memoirs 1837-8. He worked from Thomas Wilks' edited version of Grimaldi’s original, which is now lost so the...
Actor, dramatist and theatre manager. Born Hereford. Left home and travelled to London with Samuel Johnson. As a friend of the Adams brothers he was in 1772, one of the first residents in their new...
One of the three Bee Gees. A proud promoter of British heritage he campaigned for memorials to be erected, was President of Heritage Foundation, often turned up to unveil plaques, and had a very bi...
Pilot Officer Luke Elbert Allen was born on 27 December 1917 in Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, USA, the second of the five children of Frank Wilson Allen (1897-1934) and Eugie Mae Allen née Fulbright ...
National Tree Week is an event which has been promoted by the Tree Council since 1975.
Maritime explorer and cartographer. Born near Middlesbrough. The first to map Newfoundland, explored around Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and made the first circumnavigation of New Zealand. K...
Person, Exploring, Seriously Famous, Arctic & Antarctic, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand
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