Erection date: 2002
Thornton's Corner
Beckenham Journal, 1881 - 1965
First British Airmail Post Office, 9th August 1902.
Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic Society 2002
BR3, Beckenham High Street, 102 - 104
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thornton's Corner
At this time post offices were 10-a-penny (cheaper than the stamps they sold,...
Newspaper. Started as a 24 page monthly publication costing 1d (about 0.5p). ...
A retail business established by Tom William Thornton and run by his family f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thornton's Corner
Emmeline set up home here from 1916 and stayed for about 3 years. From Culture24 "When the First World War started the Suffragettes decl...
T.A. Greeves, 1917 - 1997, architect & artist co-founder of the Bedford Park Society, lived here. Bedford Park Society
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, 1938- -1997, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and Nigerian activist lived in this house as a student in 1958....
William Heath Robinson, 1872 - 1944, artist, illustrator and cartoonist known as the 'gadget king', lived here. Historic Buildings of the...
This must have been one of the Queen's last plaques.
The inclusion of the caretaker and his wife on this memorial is intriguing. Andrew Behan has researched these names and confirms that al...
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