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 (1374-86) as the ‘Comptr...
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...
Catherine Walters (Skittles), "The last Victorian Courtesan", lived here from 1872 until 1920.
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left t...
This plaque is placed at the junction with Cunard Crescent in a new housing estate, this entrance being Halliwick Gate. Bush Hill House...
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