This plaque commemorates the bicentenary of the birth of Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), who introduced pillar boxes to the United Kingdom in 1852.
In I855 this street became one of the first in London to have a pillar box.
5 similar plaques have been erected.
SW1, Pall Mall
Nothing to do with this memorial but interesting nonetheless, while researching this pillar box we found a March 2019 demonstration on .
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anthony Trollope - pillar box - Pall Mall
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the...
The river Westbourne used to run though Hyde Park following the course of what is now the Long Water and the Serpentine and left the Park...
As far as we can tell this never was the site of Toynbee Hall which appears always to have been sited at 28 Commercial Street, as it stil...
London SE1 reported this house was for sale at £2.75m: "100 Lambeth Road was Bligh's home from 1794 onwards, but he left his family behin...
Westminster Bridge is owned by Transport for London so they probably created the plaque.
Paul Nash, 1889 - 1946, war artist World Wars I & II, lived and worked here.
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