Established in medieval times as a place to hold prisoners of the King's Bench court, primarily debtors. It was originally sited in Angel Place, off Borough High Street, just north of what is now John Harvard Library. In 1754-8 this was demolished and replaced with a new building erected to the south-west on what was then St George's Fields and is now Scovell housing estate. In 1842 it became the Queen's Prison and took debtors from the Marshalsea and Fleet Prisons. It became the Southwark Convict Prison and then closed.
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King's Bench Prison
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King of Corsica
The weather-worn stone above this plaque is, we guess, the original graveston...
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Sir Michael Kerr
Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in December 1989.
1 memorial
1 memorial
R. J. Buckingham
Mayor of Hammersmith 1946 - 49. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Reginald James Buckingham was born on 8 April 1887 in Exeter, Devon. He was the second child and only son of Fre...
1 memorial
Herman Wallace
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
4 memorials
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Fleming - Nobel Prize
W2, South Wharf Road, St Mary's Hospital - Medical School building
Fleming Discovered Penicillin {Around the profile bust:} Alexander Fleming Prix Nobel 1945
1 subject commemorated
Alfred Wallace
CR0, St Peters Road, 44
Wallace Fund identifies this house as 'Pen-y-Bryn' which Wallace rented 1880 - May 1881. There is a timeline there giving his other addre...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
PP - GFW
EC1, Edward Street
We can find no maker, nor date for the erection of this memorial, but its position (outside and to the left of the loggia), the quality o...
1 subject commemorated
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
N16, Stoke Newington Church Street, 172
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House School (1817 - 1820), which stood on this site. London Boro...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Thomas Tompion
F.R.S. "the father of English clockmaking". Buried in Westminster Abbey.
4 memorials
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