Plaque

Stanley Howard Burton - Beckenham

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 1938

Inscription

This stone laid by Stanley Howard Burton 1938.

The plaque has a metal post immediately in front of it, making it impossible to take a clear photograph.

Site: Burtons - Beckenham (5 memorials)

BR3, High Street, Beckenham, 189, Pizza Express

The 3 black plaques are low down on the pilasters between the windows. 'Tailor Alley' can be seen to the left of our main photo. 'Burton's Yard' is in that alley.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Stanley Howard Burton - Beckenham

Subjects commemorated i

Burtons Menswear

Clothing manufacturer and retailer. Montague Burton (1885 - 1952) was raised ...

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Stanley Howard Burton - Beckenham

Created by i

Stanley Howard Burton

Stanley served in the RAF during WW2. The Burtons were philanthropic and in ...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Stanley Howard Burton - Beckenham

Also at this site i

Arnold James Burton - Beckenham

This stone laid by Arnold James Burton 1938.

Burton's Yard

Burton's Yard Burton the tailor built grand stores. Notice the black granite ...

Raymond Montague Burton - Beckenham

This stone laid by Raymond Montague Burton 1938.

Tailor Alley

Tailor Alley Burton the 'Tailor of Taste' opened the adjacent store in 1938.

See other memorials in the area

Nearby Memorials

Battle of Lewisham - Plaque

SE14, New Cross Road, 323, New Cross Inn

The plaque is on the brick wall to the right of the pub. The photo on our page for the Battle was taken right in front of this pub.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Emma Cons - Old Vic

SE1, The Cut, Old Vic Theatre

Our thanks to our deciphering-of-difficult-to-read-inscriptions consultant, John Hartley, without whom we would be reporting that Emma Co...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Victims of WW2

SE5, Camberwell Green

This plaque is on the right-hand fork of the path close to the Camberwell Green air-raid memorial. It is unusually wide in its scope of c...

2 subjects commemorated

View on map

Southall rail crash - memorial garden

UB2, Merrick Road, Memorial Garden

The plaque is just inside the garden.

2 subjects commemorated

View on map

St Dunstans College

EC3, St Dunstan's Hill, St Dunstan's Garden

We were more than usually delighted to find this memorial. This gothic ruin of a garden is so lovely we wanted a way of including it on L...

2 subjects commemorated

View on map