Erection date: 1995
This cast-iron roundel, showing keys and doorbells, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Commercial Street, 145, Cloisters
In our photo the plaque is on the section of pavement obscured by the pesky cyclist. This was the first Peabody estate and opened on 29 Feb 1864.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 26 - see Bowler's page for more details.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Keys and Doorbells
Philanthropist. Born Massachusetts, USA, descended from English immigrants to...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Keys and Doorbells
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
London County Council Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834, poet and philosopher, lived in a house on this site, 1812 - 1813.
Grim's Dyke was designed by R. N. Shaw in 1872 for Frederick Goodall. He sold in 1880 to Robert Herriot of Hambros Bank from whom, Gilber...
"Entensive" seems to be a portmanteau (mash-up) of "extensive" and "intensive".
At some point between the 60s and 80s the memorial was moved to the company's Cambridgeshire site. When the business was sold Jonathan My...
The plaques are just inside the entrance to the museum.
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