Spitalfields Life, our picture source, says: "Becoming the Red Lion Tavern after his {Culpeper's} death, the building was demolished in the eighteen-forties as part of road widening when Commercial St was cut through to carry traffic from the docks." And has a map showing the streets at the time and other information about the house.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Red Lion House
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Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper (1616 - 1654) physician, herbalist, astrologer and writer, ...
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Northumberland House - Charing Cross
Sited just to the east of Charing Cross, the picture source, Wikipedia, has a very useful map, but there we also read that the garden "did not reach all the way down to the river" which rather cont...
1 memorial
52 Tavistock Square
Lived in by Leonard and Virginia Woolf 1924-39. Our picture source also has some photos of the interior, and explains that, even though they have moved out, the destruction of this house affected V...
2 memorials
Adam brothers
The four Adam brothers: John (1721-1792, born Edinburgh), Robert - the important one, James and William, (1738-1822, suicide) together designed classical buildings. Father was an architect. Ini...
1 memorial
Round Hill House
In living memory this was "very run down and some kind of Labour Party social club." Elsewhere: "The Sydenham and Forest Hill Social Club ... was in Round Hill House from the 1930s until, I suppos...
2 memorials
Norway House
Norway House and Norway Yard. By the beginning of the 19th century this fine house set in its own large garden, had become a famous boarding academy for young gentlemen. We know that in 1805 the ...
1 memorial