Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale, 1874 - 1961, a founder of the Family Planning Association, operated his first birth control clinic here in 1921.
English Heritage
SE17, East Street, 153a
The plaque is around the corner in Dawes Street.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
Founded by Doctor Charles Vickery Drysdale as the National Birth Control Coun...
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenic...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Our picture, just, shows the entire southern side of this street. This foundation stone was laid in 1922 and the Vaughan Estate opened i...
The ghost was covering quite a large area - St Paul's Churchyard was at what is now the Hammersmith roundabout, three quarters of a mile ...
The drawing is surely by Mel Calman but we can find nothing to connect him with this development.
The plaque adds an extra 'n' to his first name, although several biographies refer to him as John.
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