{Between two emblems of the Clothworkers' Company:}
8 - 10 Moorgate
This land was bequeathed in 1580 by William Lambe who rebuilt the Holborn Conduit, bringing clean water to the City of London.
The Clothworkers' Company
EC2, Moorgate, 8 - 10
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Lambe - EC2
Built on a tributary of the River Fleet to bring clean water to London. Its p...
1569-1570 Master of the Clothworkers' Company. Three wives but childless whic...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Lambe - EC2
Their Hall, next to All Hallows Staining, was destroyed in the Great Fire.
George Myers, 1803 - 1875, master builder, lived here, 1842 - 1853. English Heritage
What was in the air in the fifties that made plaque carvers so inventive with their lettering? The dark section is difficult to read but...
{Inscribed on the stone below the casket:} Vernon House was bought by The Overseas League in 1921 and is dedicated to the perpetual memo...
John Alfred Prestwich, 1874 - 1952, inventor and designer of engines, founded J.A.P. Engineering Company here in 1898. Historic Buildings...
This plaque was removed when the house on which it was erected was demolished. A new plaque has been erected on the new house. We'd guess...
Industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Born Dunfermline, Scotland in a one-room cottage. 1848 the family emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA. Only about 5 feet in height and garrulous, Car...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Scotland, USA
President of the 12th Executive Committee of London Chinatown Chinese Association. His name appears twice on the lion monument and it may be Uau or Yau.
Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Tourism / Traditions, China/Hong Kong
Founded and endowed by Arnold Frank Hills (1857–1927), MD of Thames Ironworks, sportsman (founder of West Ham FC), philanthropist, and promoter of vegetarianism. A centre of treatment for sick veg...
George Bernard Shaw lived in this house from 1887 to 1898. "From the coffers of his genius he enriched the world".
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