Erection date: 24/5/1985
The City of London School was endowed by John Carpenter, Town Clerk in 1442. The Corporation of London by an Act of Parliament in 1834 established the School at Milk Street off Cheapside. In 1883 the School moved to the Victoria Embankment. On 24 May 1985 this stone was laid by the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor Sir Alan Traill, GBE, MA DMus.
EC4, Queen Victoria Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
City of London School - EC4 - Q.Victoria St
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Endowed by John Carpenter Town Clerk in 1442. The Corporation of London by an...
Town Clerk. Endowed the City of London School in 1442. Our picture is of hi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
City of London School - EC4 - Q.Victoria St
This strangely monikered garden was named for Dr William Heath Strange who, in 1882, founded the Hampstead General Hospital that went on ...
Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engineering designs made the Mulberry Harbour and the D-Day land...
Gandhi lived here in the 1890s, whilst studying law at University College.
Beneath the two windows to the left of the plaque there is some red granite, inscribed "1859", which looks like the remains of a drinking...
We find the terminology used on the information board confusing; 'bastion' is used when 'ha-ha' would make more sense. British History s...
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