Erection date: 2014
Nicholas Culpeper (1616 - 1654) physician, herbalist, astrologer and writer, lived and worked in a house on this site c1640 - 1654.
Tower Hamlets Council - People's plaques
E1, Commercial Street, 92
2014 the shop is occupied by a health food shop - perfect. 2016: Toni & Guy - oh, well.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nicholas Culpeper
Spitalfields Life, our picture source, says: "Becoming the Red Lion Tavern af...
Physician, botanist, herbalist, astrologer and writer. Probably born at Ockle...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nicholas Culpeper
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
There was a mediaeval mansion on this site, built in the 14th century for Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. In 1717 Edward Newens, a local ...
London County Council George Grossmith, 1847 - 1912, actor and author, lived here.
In our photo both these plaques are behind, and to the right of, the modern standing sign, with the paving stone in the ground directly b...
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
On this site there used to be a sister to Hotel Russell, also designed by Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolished in the 196...
Entertainer. Born over a chip shop in Rochdale, Lancashire as Grace Stansfield. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Gracie and her husband Archie moved from Upper Street, N1 in 1929 to The Towers...
By 2008 when we heard about this plaque it had been hidden/removed behind long-term building works. From Network Rail we learnt that it ...
The Jarrett plaque is laid into the tarmac path between this pillar and the Kennington Park air-raid memorial.
Landscape designer to the Metropolitan Board of Works. He wrote 'Parks, Open Spaces and Thoroughfares of London' (1869). Was the first Superintendent of Alexandra Palace Park, and was also bailiff ...
English Heritage Sir Harry Ricardo, 1885 - 1974, mechanical engineer was born here.
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