Site of the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys lived and worked. Destroyed by fire 1673.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Seeting Lane
This plaque is attached to a stone hidden in the bushes. But helpfully the man in the red t-shirt and red socks is marking its location and the tourists at the right are pointing at it, or possibly at the socks.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pepys and Navy Office
Built on the site of Walsingham's mansion, this was the Navy Office in which ...
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Born Salisbury Court, where his fath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Pepys and Navy Office
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Greater London Council William Butterfield, 1814 - 1900, architect, lived here.
We first saw this plaque when it was on the building that used to occupy this site. That was from 1990ish but the style of the plaque is ...
Elizabeth David, 1913 - 1992, cookery writer, lived and worked here, 1947 - 1992. English Heritage
London County Council W.E.H. Lecky, 1838-1903, historian and essayist lived and died here.
We are grateful to Christina Ilonka Jansen for writing to us about these plaques. She was working as Cultural Counsellor at the Dutch Em...
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