Erection date: 1973
George Cruikshank, 1792 - 1878, engraver, and illustrator, lived here, 1824 - 1849.
London Borough of Islington - historic building
Cruikshank lived here for 25 years. The plaque was unveiled by Betjeman in 1973.
EC1, Amwell Street, 71
At the time this was Myddelton Terrace.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cruikshank
Engraver, caricaturist and illustrator, best known for his political caricatu...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cruikshank
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Poet Laureate 1972 - 1984. Conservation campaigner. Credited with saving the ...
According to ‘The Streets of West Hampstead' (1992 Camden Historical Society), Sokolow called this house Hazephirah.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
From an Islington Borough website: The bomb completely destroyed the once rather splendid Highbury and Islington Station {but see below}...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling and this Newspaper Archive report from the Nor...
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