Erection date: 1887
Spitalfields Market
Rebuilt by Robert Horner during the year of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1887.
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
E1, Commercial Street, Spitalfields Market - Horner Buildings
The 1885-93 buildings bearing the plaque were designed by George Sherrin for the owner Robert Horner. Spitalfields Life has a good appreciation of the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spitalfields Market - Horner - started
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Sp...
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on...
Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Ess...
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
Anna Freud, 1895 - 1982, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, lived here 1938 - 1982.
Telemark on the left, Coates on the right. At the far right of our picture you can see London Transport's Lost Property Office. Useful t...
The plaque mentions the Charing Cross, Edgware & Hampstead Railway. We believe this should be the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampste...
In 1969 Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen but apparently this had no effect on his status and so this plaque is still technically corr...
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