Thomas Tompion, clock maker, 1639 - 1713.
EC1, St John's Lane, 33, Watchmaker Court
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date.
This modern building sports a clock (of course) with Roman numeral hours and, on the side, "XXXIII" or 33, the street number.
A large commemoration, situated inside the porch of Bentley House.
James Parkinson, 1755 - 1824, physician and geologist, lived here.
What is it with granite plaques? Surely by 1963 someone ought to have learnt, from all the Victorian ones, that they are practicably ill...
Holland wrote "Death is Nothing at All".
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema, 1996 Bob Hope, actor and entertainer, born here, 29th May 1903. In association with the British Fi...
