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...
The flower on the plaque looks to us like a chrysanthemum but we don't know if it has any special significance.
James Henry Greathead, 1844 - 1896, railway and tunnellng engineer, lived here 1885 - 1889. English Heritage
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861, poet, lived in a house on this site, 1838 - 1846.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. OM, 1860 - 1937, novelist, dramatist and creator of 'Peter Pan', lived in a house on this site, 1885 - 18...
Former London borough which is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
From Sadler's Wells: Sadler’s Wells began with "the discovery of a mineral spring in 1683. Richard Sadler built a music house around the spring to rival the already fashionable Tunbridge and Epsom ...
{Main monument:} Chiswick memorial of the Great War 1914 1918 Homes of rest for Chiswick disabled men of His Majesty's forces and their f...
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