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...
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
We captured the plaque in 2011 but failed to take a photo of the building showing the plaque in situ. It was 2017 before we managed to re...
The bronze plaque is at the entrance to the building which is the third bay to the right of these two blue plaques.
The small blue plaque is below the Palladian window to the left of our photo. Before 2011 the large blue plaque was where the red informa...
The plaque is to the right, inside the door.
Created the Royal Exchange in 1566 where the Gresham family crest, a grasshopper, can be seen. Son of Richard Gresham who was a Lord Mayor of London but Thomas never was.
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