Erection date: 2002
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon & chemist Henry Stephens, shared lodgings while studying at Guy's & St Thomas' hospitals, (1815-1816).
Guy's & St. Thomas' Charities Foundation
Unveiled as part of the 'Re-weaving Rainbows' event of National Science Week 2002.
SE1, St Thomas Street, 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
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Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. ...
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Named after Thomas a Becket, so possibly founded after 1173 when Becket was c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
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William Heath Robinson, 1872 - 1944, artist, illustrator and cartoonist known as the 'gadget king', lived here. Historic Buildings of the...
For information about where this plaque has been erected before see Rowland Hill - NW3 - second erection (and stop tittering at the back)...
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
Either this plaque is a joke or there is something special about the toilet. Perhaps this was the first of this style of toilet in the C...
2023: the building seems to be used by the Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and also by the Godiva Printing Shop.
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