Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street.
Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here and it is here that the Samuel Pepys Club hold a memorial service each year, close to the date of Samuel's death.
Spitalfield's Life have a good post on Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s.
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St Olave Hart Street - church
This is visually just a modern information board but the information is more ...
The Parish Hall of St Olave Hart Street This Hall which stands in part on the...
'The Uncommerical Traveller' was the name of articles that Dickens wrote for ...
Escaped the Great Fire. Demolished and rebuilt in 1774-7. Unused it was demolished in 1923 leaving part of the tower and the porch but then that was badly burnt in WW2. There is a related ruin jus...
Writer of hymns and religious studies. Born Jemima Thompson in Islington. She planned to do missionary work in India, but illness prevented her from doing so. She married the Reverend Samuel Luke, ...
Protestant martyr burned at Smithfield. The first of the 'Marian Martyrs'.
Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
Vicar at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1888. Wikisource gives: Thomas Daniel Cox Morse. Church of England clergyman and educationist; Rector of Drayton, Nuneaton; Vicar of Christ Church in Lond...
Novelist and playwright. Born at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park. Daughter of Gerald, grand-daughter of George. She married Major Frederick Browning in 1932, and as an army wife was obliged to...
City Engineer (B Sc, MICE, FSA) City of London in 1959 and '63. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Francis John Forty was born on 11 February 1900 in Hull, Yorkshire, the youngest of the four c...
Stated mission: "To serve equally our members, our profession and the public by defending liberty and delivering justice as the national representative of the legal profession."
Singer and songwriter. Born as Anthony James Donegan in Bridgetown, Glasgow. He was at the forefront of the skiffle craze in the 1950s, and had big hits with 'Rock Island Line', 'Cumberland Gap' an...
Sculptor. He exhibited with the Society of Portrait Sculptors in 1978 and 1979 and had his first solo exhibition in 1982. Amongst his works are statues of Doctor Samuel Johnson and the composer Ral...
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