Former Inn. Probably named after the patron saint of travellers. It appears on a plan of 1542 in the location which until the beginning of the 19th century, was known as Christopher Alley, and was later renamed Kentish Buildings.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Christopher Inn
The Grapes Tavern is a protected building and was converted from several stee...
Soldier and Fireman. Born in Trinidad, he was one of the first black men to join the British Army. In WW1, he earned a reputation for throwing bombs back over enemy lines and was nicknamed the 'Coc...
Person, Armed Forces, Community / Clubs, Emergency Services, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, France, Turkey
This photos show Rev. Knapper (in the white surplice, front left) at the opening ceremony for the hall. His daughters, now Kate Dillon (with the cushion) and Rosemary Watkins, are contributing to t...
Born as Freda Pulverness in Stepney but lived most of her life in and around West London. After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as...
Anarchist publishing house in Whitechapel. Co-founded by Peter Kropotkin as an outlet and meeting place for the radical and anarchist thinkers of the day and has operated, with short breaks, ever s...
Group, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration
This company, reportedly 150 years old, had remodelled No 10 Downing Street and refurbished the Wallace Collection art gallery, but collapsed with massive debts in 2012.
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
Perhaps the foliage on the plaque is an olive branch.
Walter de la Mare, 1873 - 1956, poet, lived here, 1940 - 1956. English Heritage
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