Born 28th. Sepr. 1740; Died 23rd.Sepr. 1824.
The Firm, Consistent, & Persevering Advocate
of
"UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE,
Equal Representation, Vote by Ballot,
AND ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS.
He was the . . . — — Map (db m115492) HM
84 Charing Cross Road
The Booksellers
Marks & Co.
Were on this site which
became world renowned
through the book by
Helene Hanff — — Map (db m122576) HM
The earliest record of the Museum Tavern was in 1723, although at that stage it was called "The Dog and Duck" after the hunting that took place in the surrounding Ponds and swamps. In 1759 the British Museum was established and the pub promptly . . . — — Map (db m109268) HM
(Front Panel:)
1914-1944
G.C., M.B.E.
Croix de Guerre
(Right Panel:)
Noor Inayat Khan was an SOE agent infiltrated into occupied France. She was executed at Dachau concentration camp. Her last word was . . . — — Map (db m115297) HM WM
Percy
Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
Poet & Radical Thinker
&
Mary Shelley
1797-1851
Author of Frankenstein
lived in a house
on this site
1815-1816 — — Map (db m116106) HM
Chemistry Department
University College London
During the period 1930-1970
Professor Sir Christopher Ingold
pioneered our understanding of the
electronic basis of structure, mechanism
and reactivity in organic chemistry,
which is . . . — — Map (db m116440) HM
In Memory of
The Glorious Sacrifice
Offered by Prudential men
Who Fell in The Great War
1914 – 1919
We Are Bound to Give
Thanks Always to God
For You BrethrenBeloved of The Lord
II Thess. 2.13
For Ye are Our . . . — — Map (db m118262) WM
In
remembrance
of our comrades
who gave their
lives in the war
of 1939 - 45
( there are two memorials, one on each side of the entrance to the building ) — — Map (db m118263) WM
Indian Poet, Philosopher and
First Nobel Laureate from Asia
Unveiled by
HRH The Prince of Wales
7th July 2011
Sculpted by Shenda Amery
Installed by The Tagore Centre UK — — Map (db m145205) HM
Close to this place
Richard Trevithick
Born 1771 - Died 1833
Pioneer of
High Pressure Steam
ran in the year 1808 the
first steam locomotive
to draw passengers — — Map (db m110144) HM
In this house lived
in 1851
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet and Painter
and from 1856 to 1859
William Morris
Poet and Artist
and
Sir Edward C. Burne-Jones
Painter — — Map (db m111362) HM
History
The Parish and Municipal Church of St. Pancras is dedicated to the Roman Boy Pancratius who was martyred by the Emperor Diocletian in the Year 304.
The old Church in Pancras Road is the oldest Building in the Borough dating in . . . — — Map (db m110932) HM
Sir Christopher Hatton (1540-1591), was Lord Chancellor of England and rumoured to be the lover of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1578 the Queen granted Christopher Hatton the grounds of Ely Palace on which Hatton House was built. In the 1600s Hatton . . . — — Map (db m118826) HM
Sir
James
Matthew
Barrie
Bart., O.M.
1860-1937
Novelist, Dramatist
and creator of
'Peter Pan'
lived in a house
on this site
1885-1888 — — Map (db m110376) HM
24th September 1917
13 people were killed and 22 injured near this spot on the steps of the old Bedford Hotel by a 112 lb bomb dropped by a Gotha in one of Londons first night air raids — — Map (db m109121) HM
St. Pancras Old Church stands on one of Europe's most ancient sites of Christian worship, possibly dating back to the early 4th Century. The present building has been here since the 11th or 12th Century and is situated close to the River Fleet, . . . — — Map (db m117417) HM
Ernest
BOULTON
1847-1904
Frederick PARK
1846-1881
'Stella & Fanny'
Victorian
cross-dressers
lodged at
13 Wakefield Street
on this site
1868-1870 — — Map (db m115489) HM
Bloomsbury
Group members
Virginia Woolf
Duncan Grant
Adrian Stephen
Leonard Woolf &
John Maynard
Keynes
lived in a house
on this site
1911-1912 — — Map (db m111130) HM
The Last Goon Show of All
starring
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan
& Harry Secombe
was recorded by the BBC
in this Theatre on
30th April 1972 — — Map (db m115384) HM
The pub dates to the late Victorian era, and was much frequented by artists and writers before the war, when it was known as "The Baby's Bottom", perhaps because it was once painted pink. It was originally a Taylor Walker brewery pub (the original . . . — — Map (db m109267) HM
The earliest official reference to the tavern now known as The Queen's Larder is contained in a deed drawn up in 1710 when Sir Nathaniel Curzon let the house to a London Stationer named Matthew Allam. The mortgage was transferred during the . . . — — Map (db m109117) HM
The first sermon on British soil by The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King was preached here at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in October 1961 — — Map (db m239963) HM
In the rear is
The White Conduit
(circa 1300.A.D)
Originally part of the water supply
to the Greyfriars Monastery
Newgate Street — — Map (db m110387) HM
THOMAS CORAM was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1668. He became a Captain in the Merchant Navy trading between England and America. For several years he lived in America as a Shipwright gaining a great reputation as an expert on all matters . . . — — Map (db m112120) HM
This eighteenth century building was erected to collect tolls from those passing through the western entrance to the estates of the bishops of London — — Map (db m68119) HM
Virginia Woolf
lived in a house formerly on the south side of
Tavistock Square from 1924 to 1939 where most of her
greatest novels were written and published
Then one day walking round Tavistock Square I made up,
as I sometimes make . . . — — Map (db m121053) HM
Brunswick Square Gardens were laid out in 1796 as part of the Foundling Hospital Estate. The main building of the hospital for children who could not be brought up by their natural parents had been built in 1745 on the site of modern-day Coram's . . . — — Map (db m120813) HM
The square is in Bloomsbury, the medical and academic quarter of London with its historical architecture, noteworthy monuments, special literary interests and international peace associations. Once part of the estate of the Dukes of Bedford and . . . — — Map (db m120835) HM
History of the Marchmont Community Garden site:
The site was at the heart of Lamb's Conduit Fields until the cash-strapped Governors of the Foundling Hospital allowed James Burton to build hundreds of houses on their Estate, including . . . — — Map (db m121015) HM
Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia
Founders of the Suffragette Movement lived in a house on this site 1888-1893 — — Map (db m239964) HM
This Tavern was established in the year 1549. During the proscription of the Roman Catholic religion it was used as a shelter for Priests and Services were held here secretly. The neighbourhood was once notorious for the gambling houses of . . . — — Map (db m220783) HM
( east plaque )
On this plot of grovnd stood of old “Pavls Cross” whereat amid svch scenes of good and evil as makevp hvman affsirs the conscience of chvrch and nation throvgh five centvries fovnd pvblic vtterance. The first record of it . . . — — Map (db m117869) HM
[Inset within a reproduction of the front cover of All The Year Round is the marker text:]
Saturday, 30th April, 1859
Charles Dickens, pen name
"Boz", operated out of
the Cheshire Cheese Pub
while producing his journal
"All . . . — — Map (db m111228) HM
Corporation of London
Blackfriars Bridge
standing on the site of the original bridge named after
William Pitt the Elder in 1760. Constructed and maintained
without burden upon public funds out of monies derived from the
Bridge House . . . — — Map (db m118269) HM
Tuesday 15th September, 1964
The Sun was launched to
replace the The Daily Herald.
First printed at Boverie
Street, south of Fleet Street. — — Map (db m120042) HM
