Erection date: 29/4/2010
City of Westminster
This building was the site of the Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post, 1794 - 1834.
W1, Gerrard Street, 39
This building was the first to operate solely as a public post office in Westminster.
It was this article in Londonist that drew our attention to this further addition to the plaque bonanza in Gerrard Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Penny post - Westminster
Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post. The first ...
First established in London in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partn...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Penny post - Westminster
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...
English Heritage Paul Nash, 1889 - 1946, artist, lived in flat 176, 1914 - 1936.
The Jarrett plaque is laid into the tarmac path between this pillar and the Kennington Park air-raid memorial.
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
This plaque is doing a good job, masquarading as a City of London plaque, such as at the City of London School, but no erecting body is n...
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