Friends meeting house. This building was the Peckham meeting house of the Society of Friends 1835 - 1962, attended by eminent quakers including Elizabeth Cadbury, social reformer and Arthur Eddington, astronomer.
Historic Southwark
SE15, Highshore Road, 2 - 4, Royal Mail Delivery Office
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessm...
Philanthropist. Born Elizabeth Mary Taylor at 3 Elm Place, Peckham Rye. She a...
Astronomer. mathematician and physicist. Born Arthur Stanley Eddington in Ken...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Sir Charles Barry, 1795 - 1860, architect, lived and died here. L.C.C.
The plaques are on the stone pillars either side of the entrance; plaque 1 to the left in our photo and plaque 2 to the right. The stran...
In our photo the plaque can be seen in the paving between the fair-haired woman with the backpack, and the woman with remarkably white tr...
Clarendon Arch is the oldest surviving structure on the New River, but our visit was spoilt by the gate being locked. Thus: our poor pho...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 - 1951, pre-eminent Viennese philosopher & mathematician, worked incognito at Guy's Hospital pharmacy as dr...
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