Erection date: 1840
{Beneath the Thackeray family coat of arms with the motto 'Tenez le Droit' (Uphold the right):}
Built and endowed in 1840, for six aged females, by John Thackeray of the Priory, Lewisham, who died on the 13th day of May 1851.
This plaque must have initially been erected without the last section of text, "who died...".
SE6, Rushey Green
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesof london.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lewisham Almshouses
Philanthropist. He was a wealthy benefactor, particularly to Lewisham and Chr...
The home of philanthropist John Thackeray. It was built in the gothic style w...
This plaque, spotted by our colleague Alan Patient, was erected in 2012, sometime between our first visit in January and Alan's visit in ...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
Andreas Kalvos, 1792 - 1869, Greek poet and patriot lived here. English Heritage
This building was the first to operate solely as a public post office in Westminster. It was this article in Londonist that drew our att...
Butt lived here with her husband, the singer Robert Rumford, and their children.
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