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,...
This building was erected in the 1930s. Actor Angela Lansbury contributed to the 2008 restoration of the clock.
We wouldn't normally include such a plaque but this one is very decorative.
London Borough of Southwark Sam Wanamaker, 1919 - 1993, visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Voted by the People
The plaque was laid secretly at night, near to the site of Rigby's murder. Greenwich Council feared that it would attract right wing act...
John 'Jack' Kennedy, 1935 - 2003, campaigner for justice, lived here 1960 - 1984. London Borough of Islington Islington People's Plaque
The web offers up a few Anna Kists but none with the prefix Lady.
"Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster" - first line in Shakespeare's Richard II. Fourth son of Edward III. Younger brother to the Black Prince. Uncle to Richard II. Born in Ghent. Lived at th...
Brought up at the court of Henry VII. A favourite of King Henry VIII. Took possession of the family's estate in Southwark following the death of his uncle Thomas Brandon, in 1510. Henry VIII create...
Our colleague Alan Patient took this photograph in 2010. By 2016 it had been replaced by the "Turners and Paget" plaque.
Potter. Née Gompertz in Vienna into a rich, intellectual family. 1938 she and her husband fled Nazism intending to go to the USA but Lucie, already more interested in her work than her husband, dec...
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