New wing added 1887, J. T. Pedder Esq. Chairman
EC1, Old Street
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from left to right: 1887, 1698, 1972, 1870. Lower down are two, more decorative plaques, commemorating two treasurers, left to right: Pedder and Telfer.
The school is now in premises in nearby Radnor Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke'...
John Thomas Pedder was born in 1823 in Romford, Essex, the second of the eigh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
Kingsley Hall, built in 1927, was designed by Charles Cowles-Voysey (1889 – 1981), son of C. F. A. Voysey.
This is the most technical plaque we've ever transcribed - and we are none the wiser.
These plaques seem to relate to the maintenance and changing ownership of the grounds of "The Holly Lodge". The house (which was between ...
July 2023 - We have now visited the site 3 times, but on each occasion the garden has been padlocked. We found the two other memorials cl...
This free-standing monument is to the north of the church. From War Memorials Online: "A tall Gothic structure of Barnack ragstone, with ...
The 3 guardsmen are cast from captured Russian guns. The guns displayed at the rear are those used at the siege of Sebastopol. This was ...
These mosaics are laid in the pavement in a rather sad, out the way, corner of the South Bank, at street level, near the non-main entranc...
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
