St. Lukes School moved from this site 1972.
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 - 1972
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke'...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1972
The pair of them drank individually at several pubs in the area. Whether they quaffed here together at the same time is not known for sur...
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...
This plaque was rededicated to the memory of the two firemen in a ceremony on 16 April 2011.
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both give De Vere's date of death as 1604 so the 1609 on the plaque must be exp...
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