This terracotta-coloured plaque is now in Australia (see eHive) with one of the chimney pots. See Captain Cook's house for information and a photo of the house with plaque.
Our image comes from the Spitalfields Life article.
E1, Mile End Road, 88
The address was 7 Assembly Row when Cook and his family moved in, 1764.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Captain Cook - E1 plaque - gone
Note: this is not Cooks' Cottage - that started life in North Yorkshire and i...
Maritime explorer and cartographer. Born near Middlesbrough. The first to map...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Captain Cook - E1 plaque - gone
Nicholson's pubs must have ordered a job lot of these plaques - all the same.
This plaque is made of a single piece of cast iron.
Other watch houses that we have found: Walthamstow, Hampstead, Cannon Lane, Hampstead, Holly Place, Giltspur Street, Rotherhithe, Abbey S...
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
This is the foundation stone of the 1928 Lloyd's building.
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