Dr Johnson
Johnson was a good friend of the Thrales who owned the Anchor Brewery which once occupied this site. We've read that this image was the trademark for the brewery (or its successor Barclay Perkins) but we can't corroborate that.
SE1, Porter Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anchor / Barclay Perkins Brewery
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
Thrale.com states that the Anchor name was acquired during Child's ownership,...
Building designed by George Vulliamy. The Heath Street façade bears the initials "M.B.W." (Metropolitan Board of Works) and "1873". In ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930, creator of Sherlock Holmes lived here, 1891 - 1894. Greater London Council
Site of the City of London School for Girls founded by William Ward, 1894 to 1969. City of London
This marks the site where Wallis's water-skipping explosives were tested on models at the Road Research Laboratories. Tom Long sent us th...
Initially we thought that the plaque was installed by the first person to hold the post 'Commissioner of H. M. Works and Public Buildings...
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