City of Westminster
Site of the home of James Barry, 1741 - 1806, Irish artist and creator of the murals at the Royal Society of Arts.
W1, Eastcastle Street, 36
At the time of Barry's residence, the thoroughfare was known as Castle Street East.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
James Barry
Painted by the artist James Barry. They show, 'Orpheus', 'A Grecian Harvest-H...
Painter. Born in Water Lane, Blackpool, Cork, Ireland. He studied in Italy an...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
James Barry
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Erected by Camden London Borough Council Peggy Duff, 1910 - 1981, first General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and lo...
The 3 black plaques are low down on the pilasters between the windows. 'Tailor Alley' can be seen to the left of our main photo. 'Burton'...
The overflow pipe is not part of the memorial.
Greater London Council Francis Turner Palgrave, 1824 - 1897, compiler of the "Golden Treasury", lived here, 1862 - 1875.
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
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