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...
Site of the City of London School for Girls founded by William Ward, 1894 to 1969. City of London
This huge plaque is on the rear of the National Gallery, Sainsbury wing.
The medieval church of St Peter, Westcheap (now Cheapside) used to stand on this corner facing Cheapside. The blue information board give...
These 6 plaques are on the east elevation of the building, below the ground floor windows. We have numbered the plaques left to right. F...
IanVisits reports that the first carriages carrying paying passengers actually travelled through the Channel Tunnel in 1994 and that is c...
This building housed the offices of Charles Dickens' magazine 'All the Year Round' and his private apartments, 1859 - 1870.
The Junior 3rd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website that (in April 2022) incorrectly gives his age as 39 years at the time of his deat...
Born Edinburgh's New Town. Never a well man, he tried living in various places looking for a climate that would suit: Bournemouth, France, New York State. He died on a small Samoan island in the Pa...
This is the story of a plaque that was lost and was mysteriously re-found, with pictures, before and after. Our thanks to Brian Longman f...
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