SE16, St Marychurch Street, 70
The watch-house is the low building to the right of the one with the scholar statues. the blue plaque you can just see to the left is for Reverend Nicholas Richards and has its own entry.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary Rotherhithe - charity girl
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
Charity school. Co-founded by Robert Bell and Peter Hill for the education of...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Mary Rotherhithe - charity girl
{On the plaque between the two charity scholars:} St Mary Rotherhithe free sc...
Our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, didn’t find it easy to translate descriptions of a person’s character but it reads well to us. He ad...
The sculptor's name is inscribed on the stone below the feet.
Noting the stance and the toga, Osbert Sitwell described this statue as "boredom rising from the bath." Peter Duby tells us that the stat...
We took our photos from the Riverside Walk, through a locked gate. To the right of our photo (out of view) one can see into the large ent...
The monument, commissioned by Queen Victoria and designed by George Gilbert Scott, was built 1864-72, and the statue of Albert was instal...
There is meant to be another identical plaque further north in Brick Lane but we cannot find it. This cast-iron roundel, showing buttons ...
Lovely bronze plaque to a heartening war-time British service.
Actor. Born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee in Belgravia. After war service in various parts of Europe he took up acting, although at first he was told he was too tall. In films he is best remember...
Benny Hill, 1922-1992, comedian, lived here 1960-1986, The Dead Comics Society.
Born in Winford, Somerset. "The Dockers' K.C.". Self-taught. National Organiser of the Dockers' Union, 1910 - 1921. General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (which he created...
