Erection date: /5/2012
Site of the Jolly Sailor Inn, South Norwood's first public building, 1810.
People for Portland Road
SE25, High Street, 64
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Jolly Sailor Inn
Claimed to be the first public building in South Norwood. When it opened ther...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Jolly Sailor Inn
Group which works for the regeneration of Portland Road and its surrounding a...
Betty Knight, 1936 - 2010, champion for the rights of Islington residents, lived here from 1976 - 2010. London Borough of Islington Islin...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 - 1947, forensic pathologist, lived here, 1912 - 1940. English Heritage
The two NPI plaques are in the doorway on the right, at no 48; the Curtis plaque is to the left at no 51. NPI have made rather excessive ...
Unveiled by Ruthie Henshall and Andrew Lloyd Webber on 3 May 1995. Jessie Matthews was actually born a few yards away at number 94.
The East London Record, No 15, 1991, in an article by Harold Finch entitled "Frederick Rogers: Bookbinder and Journalist": "In 1988, Sout...
In 1740 this French Hugeonot church moved into the building in Hanbury Street, with a patent granted by King James II.
A tavern/restaurant at 1 Change Alley. 2019: We were kindly contacted by Raymond Cross who told us that his great great uncle, William Mann Cross ( ? - 1919) was the owner and proprietor of this r...
On this site stood Emanuel Hospital, founded 1594 by Lady Dacre, re-established 1883, as Emanuel School.
Doctor and psychologist. Born 1 Jeffrey's Road, Clapham Road. Set up a private practice in Bayswater with her lifelong partner and friend Dr Elizabeth Honor Bone. First woman to be elected to the C...
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
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