Chef, author of cookbooks, inventor. One of the first celebrity chefs. Born France. Trained in Paris and fled to England during the French Revolution in 1830. Designed, invented and introduced various innovations: mobile cooking carriage for the Army, cooking with gas, refrigerators cooled by cold water, ovens with adjustable temperatures and a tabletop stove. Went to the Crimean War and designed a field stove for use by the troops. Died at home, 15 Marlborough Road. The 1842 portrait is by his wife, (Elizabeth) Emma, who was a professional artist (we believe, but some sources confusingly date this portrait after her death.) Londonist reports on a mamoth soup kitchen that Soyer organised on Christmas Day 1851.
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Alexis Soyer
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Alexis Soyer
Alexis Soyer, 1810 - 1858, chef, author of cookbooks, inventor, lived here. C...
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Walter Clopton Wingfield
Born at Rhysnant Hall, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Served in the 1st Dragoon Guards, and saw action in China and India. In the late 1860s he began experimenting with an outdoor version of real tennis. ...
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Victualling Yard, Deptford
An information board “Docklands Heritage – Deptford River Walk” gives a good introduction to the area so we have transcribed it: "Alongside the Dockyard a Navy victualling and supply centre grew u...
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.
2 memorials
The Old Justice
The picture source says: "An Old Justice pub has been on the site for at least the mid 1850s and the name probably refers to the old justices of the peace, who often had businesses in the area as w...
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Pubs in Time
A scheme developed by The Campaign for Real Ale for erecting plaques on public houses that have featured in significant events in history.
2 memorials
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Joseph Losey
Born Wisconsin, U.S.A. Film and theatre director. In 1952 he moved to England after being blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Directed three ground-breaking films, (with...
1 memorial
Sir Charles Santley
Opera singer. Born Liverpool. Died at home, where the plaque now is.
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Captain Cook's house
Note: this is not Cooks' Cottage - that started life in North Yorkshire and in 1933 was moved to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the 1934 centenary of that city's foundation. It was replaced wit...
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War dead, WW1
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