Site of Crosskey's Inn, destroyed 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Gracechurch Street
The archway in our picture is the entrance to Bell Inn Yard. On the left wall you can just see two plaques; the upper one names the yard, the lower is this blue plaque.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Crosskey's Inn
In the late 1500s plays were performed in the inn-yard. The Inn was destroy...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Crosskey's Inn
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here, 9th Dec. 1868. ...
We are grateful to Christina Ilonka Jansen for writing to us about these plaques. She was working as Cultural Counsellor at the Dutch Em...
The plaque is on the pavement immediately below the 'Gloucester Circus' sign. In our photo the middle bollard is crossing it.
Perhaps the foliage on the plaque is an olive branch.
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