Erection date: 2006
Alfred Bestall, 1892 - 1986, illustrator of Rupert Bear, lived here 1936 - 1966.
English Heritage
KT5, Cranes Park, 58
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alfred Bestall
Children's comic strip character. Created by the artist Mary Tourtel. In 1935...
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He s...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alfred Bestall
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
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Bobby Moore, 1941 - 1993, captain of the world cup-winning England football team, lived here. English Heritage
The two plaques can be seen in our photo, on the left of the portico.
The right-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.
Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of the Fountain Club. Since the Kit-Cat Club, Walpole's supporters, also met here, we have to trust that the landlord arrange...
Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration
Author of the first History of Hampstead which he published aged 16. Celebrated career in law. Son of Thomas Park.
Co-churchwarden of St Peter and St Matthew Friday Street in 1712.
Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Born Bristol. Became a teacher, moved into education management and worked in the Transvaal. Back in Britain he edited a newspaper. In WW1, too old f...
Our picture is one of the illustrations by Peggy Fortnum.
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