Historic Southwark
Site of St Thomas' Hospital, 1225 - 1865. The first printed bible in English was produced here 1537 A.D.
SE1, Borough High Street
Not one of London's most charming corners.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Thomas' Hospital and bible
James Nicholson, a printer residing at St Thomas' Hospital was granted a lice...
Named after Thomas a Becket, so possibly founded after 1173 when Becket was c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Thomas' Hospital and bible
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
This plaque shows children’s toys: marbles; a hoop and stick; a wooden top with whip (photo at Black Country history). We aren't aware of...
Oskar Kokoschka, 1886 - 1980, painter lived here. English Heritage
English Heritage George Frederick Bodley, 1827 - 1907, architect, lived here, 1862 - 1873.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
An exclusive club which only knights can join. Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...
A tunnel beneath the Thames with entrances at Tower Hill and at Vine Lane on the south side. The second tunnel under the Thames (the first being Brunel's) and the first tunnel anywhere built using ...
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