Spitalfields Life, our picture source, says: "Becoming the Red Lion Tavern after his {Culpeper's} death, the building was demolished in the eighteen-forties as part of road widening when Commercial St was cut through to carry traffic from the docks." And has a map showing the streets at the time and other information about the house.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Red Lion House
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Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper (1616 - 1654) physician, herbalist, astrologer and writer, ...
Other Subjects
Kensington Palace
A residence of the British royal family since the 17th century. Built as Nottingham House by the Earl of Nottingham. It passed from his heir (who was secretary of state to King William III), to the...
2 memorials
Captain Cook's house
Note: this is not Cooks' Cottage - that started life in North Yorkshire and in 1933 was moved to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the 1934 centenary of that city's foundation. It was replaced wit...
2 memorials
John Abernethy Warburton
Initially this plaque looked like it was raised by a man simply concerned about his property. The only notable Warburton we could find in the area is a Dr Warburton who managed the insane asylum w...
1 memorial
12 & 14 Folgate Street
Reading left to right the five 4-storey houses in the picture are numbers 18 - 10. The picture source gives some detailed descriptions of the houses in their 1957 state and informs that in 1813 ou...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Pilot Officer William Richard Driver
William Richard Driver was the son of James Skelton Driver Junior (1891-1940) and Xylda Irwin Driver née Lowe (1898-1994). There is some confusion as to his date and place of birth. The American Ai...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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