In the roadway opposite stood St Gabriel Fenchurch, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666.
Corporation of London
EC3, Fenchurch Street, 30
We've been expecting another plaque to appear on this building, commemorating Plantation House and its role (1936 – 1970) in the London Tea Trade, but, 2021, we've not heard anything.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Gabriel Fenchurch
Dating back to at least 1331, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire afte...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Gabriel Fenchurch
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Norway cut swing bridge This footbridge, with its granite paving, formerly stood across the entrance lock to South Dock and dates from ab...
In our photo the sunlit plaque can be seen inside the building, between the heads of the travellers passing through the ticket barriers.
The plaque doesn't let on exactly what was erected in 1882. The stone is on a column supporting Abbey Road, on a bridge across the railwa...
London Pavilion On this site between 1885 and 1934 stood the re-sited London Pavilion built following the demolition of its predecessor ...
Actually Lytham House is thought to be the tall Victorian building to the west of the low 1950s building.
The church plaque is below the large wooden cross. the twinning plaque, unusually large, is on the wall to the right, below the tree.
Sculptor and poet. Born Hadleigh Suffolk. Early member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Emigrated to Australia 1852-3 for economic reasons. Buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Hendon.
The bomb landed at the junction of Boothby, Giesbach and Grovedale Roads, with residents from the adjacent St John’s Way also suffering in the attack. 35 adults and children died, and 219 were inju...
Rower. Born Buckinghamshire. Won Olympic gold: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 - this man can row! But what his connection is to Southwark or the South Bank, we can not discover.
We don't know what the red symbols mean (born and died?) but we do recognise the symbol between the dates. Stephen Brasher wrote to say ...
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