Erection date: 23/11/2003
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342 - 1400, England's greatest medieval poet and author of the "Canterbury Tales".
The Tabard Inn, site from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off in April 1386.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the People
Unveiled by Terry Jones of the Pythons.
SE1, Talbot Yard
The plaque is apparently on the oldest building in Talbot Yard.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in ...
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
In our photo the plaque can be seen between the trees and above the car.
London County Council Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917, actor-manager lived here.
Unveiled by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. Behind this plaque is an interesting detective story, related in Dr Ruth Richardson's book: 'Dicke...
We've put the pin for these 6 plaques at the entrance to the alleyway but they are actually laid into the ground, distributed along the a...
{Beneath the arms of Archbishop Whitgift:} The Hospital of the Holy Trinity founded by Archbishop Whitgift in 1596. "to be an hospitall a...
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