Whitecross Debtors' Prison, 1813 - 1870
Warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son, the Duke of St. Albans, to lay out £20 a year to release poor debtors out of prison, and this sum was distributed every Christmas Day to the inmates of Whitecross Street Prison.
Mad in England
English Hedonists
EC2, Whitecross Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
This was on the southern most section of Whitecross Street, immediately north...
Illegitimate son of Nell Gwynne and Charles II. Born at his mother's house i...
Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever. Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
The artist Carrie Reichardt is part of this group, probably its main artist, ...
Ada House This block was built in 1937 by the London County Council and was named after Ada Place in which the block is situated; which i...
These plaques are to the north of the fountain in the front garden of Wandsworth Town Hall, on Fairfield Street. The time capsule stone i...
{Around a pair of clasped hands, the initials PBS and the motto 'Unitate Fortior' (stronger through unity):} People's Building Society.
Great Portland Street is a London Underground station on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.
This was the first plaque erected to a black person, in 1975.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them