St. Lukes School moved from this site 1972.
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 - 1972
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke'...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1972
We can't explain the quotation marks on the inscription and think they are probably not significant.
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Francis Owen Salisbury "Frank" 1874 - 1962 Artist, mural and portrait painter recorder of scenes of magnificent pageantry and historic ev...
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Here lived Capt. Frederick Marryat R.N., 1792 - 1848, novelist.
The plaque is over the entrance to the restaurant.
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Peruvian essayist, herald of Latin American Independence.
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