Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition.
City of Westminster
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875 - 1912 composer, lived and died here. Nubian Jak Community Trust Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Centenary Festival ...
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...
Sometime between 2009 and 2012 a long blue panel was added to this building, low on the left. The text adds some detail to the famous me...
When Ben was a child his family lived at number 1 Pilgrim's Lane, 1904-6. His time at 2b was during the 1970s and 80s.
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