Erection date: 1890
These buildings were erected by John Studds and Son of Barrets Grove Stoke Newington
{below the hive:}
Commenced 1889 Finished 1890
Yes, they've mis-spelt the name of their own road.
N1, Upper Street, 48
Number 49 returns round Berners Street and its decorative pillar tops (can't really call them capitals) each carry a beehive.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beehive foundation stone - Upper Street
A building firm based in Barretts Grove, Stoke Newington, active in 1891. Slu...
The names on this plaque are difficult to read so take our transcription as tentative.
{On the central plaque:} This stone was laid by J. Passmore Edwards Esq 19 October 1900 Mark Dalton - Chairman of Vestry Arthur H. Valent...
Siegfried Sassoon, MC, poet, novelist, biographer, 1886-1967, lived and worked in a house on this site, 1919-1925. The Thorney Island Soc...
The long piece of text is attributed to Raleigh, here and all over the web, but we can find no source for it, so we've put this page in o...
Plaque unveiled by Mercury's sister and Brian May. We thought it strange that English Heritage decided that his real first name was Fred...
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