1812: Construction of Regent’s Canal attracted Irish navvies & their families. 1956 saw the last horse-drawn barge.
NW8, Salisbury Street, Morris House
The eleven pavement plaques can be seen randomly distributed over this paved area. The Nightingale Street Buildings plaque can just be seen in our photo, on the red brick building, partly obscured by the shop awning.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Church Street pavement plaque - 1812 - Canal
Created following the passing of the Regent's Canal Bill in July 1812, to cut...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Church Street pavement plaque - 1812 - Canal
The church is immediately north of the Westway, beside its parish hall.
1831 – 1962: Charlie Chaplin was one of many famous artists to perform at the...
1855: Richard Jordan opened a pawnbroker’s, which became Jordan’s Department ...
1863: The Metropolitan Line, from Paddington to Faringdon via Marylebone, was...
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
These two plaques tell a complex story which we only fully understood once we found this UCL paper. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St Mary's C...
Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's very first public art gallery, was founded in 1811 when Sir Francis Bourgeois ...
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Mountbatten.
William Lindley 1808 - 1900, Sir William Heerlein Lindley 1853 - 1917, civil engineers, lived here. English Heritage
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