New wing added 1887, J. T. Pedder Esq. Chairman
EC1, Old Street
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from left to right: 1887, 1698, 1972, 1870. Lower down are two, more decorative plaques, commemorating two treasurers, left to right: Pedder and Telfer.
The school is now in premises in nearby Radnor Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke'...
John Thomas Pedder was born in 1823 in Romford, Essex, the second of the eigh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
2022: London World reported that this double-plaque house was for sale.
Commemoration of this event has had a chequered history. First Hackney mistakenly erected a plaque on the wrong building. That plaque the...
Thomas Park F.S.A. "The poetical antiquary", born 1759, died 1834, and his son, John James Park, author of the first History of Hampstead...
It's rare for a plaque to specify the time at which it was unveiled - we count ourselves fortunate if we get the year.
Clissold Crescent was part of the Willow Estate, whose history is well-covered at Local Local History, but Brooks is not mentioned there....
