This plaque commemorates the bicentenary of the birth of Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), who introduced pillar boxes to the United Kingdom in 1852.
In 1855 this street became one of the first in London to have a pillar box.
5 similar plaques have been erected.
SW7, Rutland Gate
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Rutland Gate
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Rutland Gate
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post ...
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph was taken 2008), We have contacted Stephens House, who tell us that it was removed in ...
Site of Northumberland House The Corporation of the City of London
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
This cast-iron roundel, showing keys and doorbells, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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