Whitecross Debtors' Prison, 1813 - 1870
Warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son, the Duke of St. Albans, to lay out £20 a year to release poor debtors out of prison, and this sum was distributed every Christmas Day to the inmates of Whitecross Street Prison.
Mad in England
English Hedonists
EC2, Whitecross Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
This was on the southern most section of Whitecross Street, immediately north...
Illegitimate son of Nell Gwynne and Charles II. Born at his mother's house i...
Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever. Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
The artist Carrie Reichardt is part of this group, probably its main artist, ...
From Spitalfields Life: "The Brady Girls’ Club ran from 1920 to 1970. Led by Miriam Moses ... – the Club supported the community during t...
The left-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.
Chosen as the featured memorial in May 2005. We know no more about Bob than the plaque provides. This is an example of one type of mem...
Wilkie Collins, 1824 - 1889, Victorian novelist and author of 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', was born in a house on this site....
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