Erection date: 1655
Here are several sorts of work for the poor of this parish St Margarets Westminster. As also the county according to law and for such as will beg and live idle in this city and liberty of Westminster. Anno 1655.
SW1, Little Sanctuary
IanVisits posted about this gate and included a map showing where the Bridewell used to be.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Tothill Fields Gate
Also known as Tothill Fields Bridewell, Westminster Bridewell and the Westmin...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Tothill Fields Gate
The stone gateway is all that remains of the early 17th century Westminster H...
This is the first reference to the 'angel world' that we've recorded.
Here lived Charles Kitterbell as related by Charles Dickens in sketches by Boz "The Bloomsbury Christening".
Initially (ha-ha) we were puzzled by the letters at the bottom of this plaque and we are grateful to Jan Eskildsen who, via Facebook, has...
These two plaques are commemorating the same thing.
The St Marylebone Society Dodie Smith, 1895 - 1990, author and playwright, lived here.
We found three English Hedonist plaques in Whitecross Street in early 2013. Please let us know if there are more that we missed.
English Heritage Sir Gerald Kelly, 1879 - 1972, portrait painter lived here, 1916 - 1972.
Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library.
Author of the Pronouncing Dictionary. Actor then teacher. Published "Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, Rules Addressed to Citizens of Scotland, Ireland and London" in 1791. Friends with Dr. Johnson...
