Erection date: 1973
George Cruikshank, 1792 - 1878, engraver, and illustrator, lived here, 1824 - 1849.
London Borough of Islington - historic building
Cruikshank lived here for 25 years. The plaque was unveiled by Betjeman in 1973.
EC1, Amwell Street, 71
At the time this was Myddelton Terrace.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cruikshank
Engraver, caricaturist and illustrator, best known for his political caricatu...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cruikshank
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Poet Laureate 1972 - 1984. Conservation campaigner. Credited with saving the ...
This building, by Higgs and Hill, is basically a rather massive office block but it has some lovely carved reliefs of firemen doing what ...
Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, and pioneered Army Cadets 1887 - 1890. London Borough of South...
London Borough of Camden Lord Pitt of Hampstead, 1913 - 1994, physician and civil rights campaigner, worked here, 1950 - 84.
The plaque 's singular "Field" is interesting but incorrect.
The Biblical quotation at the end of the inscription is from 1 John 3:16. This is a very unusual style for a WW1 memorial and we think i...
Most sources give 22 as the number of Camberwell citizens that were killed in WW1, as a result of Zeppelin attacks. An obelisk in Camberwell Old Cemetery gives the names but of only 21.
The plaque is in the pavement between the bike stands and the decorative post.
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 23. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
