New wing added 1887, J. T. Pedder Esq. Chairman
EC1, Old Street
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from left to right: 1887, 1698, 1972, 1870. Lower down are two, more decorative plaques, commemorating two treasurers, left to right: Pedder and Telfer.
The school is now in premises in nearby Radnor Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke'...
John Thomas Pedder was born in 1823 in Romford, Essex, the second of the eigh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
There are two other plaques on the front of this building. They don't commemorate anything so we can't really enter them as memorials but...
Richmal Crompton, authoress, lived here, 1928 - 1954. Bromley the London Borough
Michael Flanders, 1922 - 1975, Donald Swann, 1923 - 1994, writers and performers of comic songs, lived and worked in the garden studio. E...
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
Orwell was in lodgings here for a brief period: from late 1927 to Spring 1928, when he moved to Paris.
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