Erection date: /5/2011
East Street Market formerly East Lane Market, moved from Walworth Road to its current site in 1880 for the construction of an electric tramway. Continuing to serve.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the people
SE17, East Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East Street Market
There has been street trading in this area since the sixteenth century. The c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East Street Market
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Site of the Blacksmiths' Hall 1668 - 1785. Corporation of London
The current building was designed by Arthur Bailey and built in 1950.
The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumably deliberate, and mean something. But what? We can find no...
The photograph was taken some years ago and sadly since then, this plaque has been vandalised by being painted over. It is not clear ther...
Above the entrance to the building (to the left of our picture) in stone: 1573, E.R.".
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