Plaque

Sir Emery Walker

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 1959

Inscription

Sir Emery Walker, 1851 - 1933, typographer and antiquary lived here 1903 - 1933.
London County Council

Site: Sir Emery Walker (1 memorial)

W6, Hammersmith Terrace, 7

2017: Spitalfields Life has a terrific post on this house: "Emery Walker’s House in Hammersmith Terrace has survived almost as he left it ... Today it boasts one of London’s best preserved Arts & Crafts interiors ... " and there are lots of photos. There we learn that Thomas Cobden-Sanderson had been the previous resident of the house.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Process engraver and typographer. Born at 10 Pickering Terrace, Paddington. H...

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