Erection date: 2000
Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, 1830 - 1908, first chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade lived here, 1878 - 1891.
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SE1, Southwark Bridge Road, 94, Winchester House
This building was part of the complex London Fire Brigade's HQ and Training Centre.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Eyre Massey Shaw
The London Fire Engine Establishment, formed in 1833 under the leadership of ...
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Eyre Massey Shaw
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The flower on the plaque looks to us like a chrysanthemum but we don't know if it has any special significance.
Apart from the actual names the two plaques are the same. Our photo shows the one on the left.
The Heritage Foundation website mentions a plaque to him unveiled in 2000 by his wife Stephanie, Sir Norman Wisdom, Kenneth Wolstenholme,...
We can find no maker, nor date for the erection of this memorial, but its position (outside and to the left of the loggia), the quality o...
The Magic Circle was founded on this site at Pinoli's Restaurant by twenty-three magicians on July 1st 1905. British Plaque Trust
'Sesquicentenary' is such a great word - it's not even in the Microsoft dictionary. As you can work out it means the 150th anniversary.
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