On this site in the years 1844-1846 were situated the London offices of the Anti-Corn-Law League with which John Bright and Richard Cobden were so closely associated.
EC4, Fleet Street, 69
The ACLL plaque is on the wall to the left, hidden by the wall-mounted No Entry sign.
Note: despite their appearance, neither of these two plaques bears the name ‘Corporation of the City of London’.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anti-Corn Law League
Founded in Manchester by Richard Cobden with the objective of having the Corn...
Politician. Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repea...
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Anti-Corn Law League
We are grateful to Christina Ilonka Jansen for writing to us about these plaques. She was working as Cultural Counsellor at the Dutch Em...
The BFI date the Hippodrome performance to Christmas 1900. The quote about a day without laughter may have been said by Chaplin but he wa...
This terracotta-coloured plaque is now in Australia (see eHive) with one of the chimney pots. See Captain Cook's house for information an...
Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her husband John Middleton Murry, 1889 - 1957, critic, lived here.
In 1899 the Battersea Vestry became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
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