Erection date: 23/11/2003
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342 - 1400, England's greatest medieval poet and author of the "Canterbury Tales".
The Tabard Inn, site from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off in April 1386.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the People
Unveiled by Terry Jones of the Pythons.
SE1, Talbot Yard
The plaque is apparently on the oldest building in Talbot Yard.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in ...
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Previously known as Churchyard Bottom Wood, the wood was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria when Hornsey Urban District Council purchase...
The Tawney plaque is on the first floor, Wood on the second.
Greater London Council Karl Pearson, 1857 - 1936, pioneer statistician, lived here.
Following comments via Facebook and correspondence with Sue Itzinger we understand that at Nunhead Cemetery there is an unmarked mass gra...
We originally questioned the date of this plaque but Melissa Harrison wrote and convinced us that it probably is 17th century.  This rea...
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