Site of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Friday Street, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC4, Watling Street, 25
Friday Street used to continue northwards up to Cheapside but the top section was badly bombed in WW2 and then built over.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St John the Evangelist Church
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 John the Evangelist Church
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), novelist, lived here, 1854-1862. L.C.C.
The foundation stones are listed here left to right. They were laid in October 1889 and the building opened in April the following year....
This plaque raises some questions. Firstly, how could he have 'died a pauper', when,in 1718 he married a gentlewoman with a £20,000 fortu...
L.C.C. Algernon Charles Swinburne, (1837-1909), -poet-, and his friend, Theodore Watts-Dunton, (1832-1914), poet-novelist-critic, lived a...
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to promote 'London Bridge City' rather than 'Pool of London'.
