{Beside the London Borough of Merton coat of arms:}
Eagle House
A fine Queen Anne house built in the Dutch style in 1705, probably for Fernando Mendez, a royal physician. The land was originally owned by Walter Raleigh. In Victorian times, it was part of the Holborn Union Workhouse School.
CR4, London Road, 224
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Eagle House - Merton
The school was part of a huge workhouse complex which gave basic education to...
Physician. Born Fernando Moses Mendez (or Mendes) in Beira, Portugal. Came to...
Courtier, explorer, author and puddle-coverer. Born Devon. Became a favouri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Eagle House - Merton
Formed under the London Government Act 1963, by the merger of the Municipal B...
This is the only surviving purpose-built 18th century tavern, now in 2011, a Chinese deli.
This marks the site where Wallis's water-skipping explosives were tested on models at the Road Research Laboratories. Tom Long sent us th...
Round Table The neighbourhood of St. Martins Lane was, in the middle of the Eighteenth century, the resort of 'horsy and fighting men'. ...
Thomas Crapper, 1837 - 1910, engineer, developer of the controlled flow cistern lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
Sir John Betjeman, 1906 - 1984, Poet Laureate and conservationist, lived here, 1973 - 1984.
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