Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House School (1817 - 1820), which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Stoke Newington Church Street, 172
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years befor...
Author and poet. Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he added Allan to h...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Poe Unveiled by Steven Berkoff on 4 June 2011. The Flicker Club The Edgar All...
That's what we like, a plaque that doesn't waffle, short and to the point.
Henry Havelock Ellis, 1859 - 1939, pioneer in the scientific study of sex, lived here. Greater London Council
Of course, none of you need reminding that a perch is equivalent to 5 and a half yards so the enlargement was by 137.5 yards or 125.73 me...
The Metropolitan Tabernacle is still there, on Newington Butts at Elephant and Castle. The biblical quote fails to hide the blatant self...
June 2020: This building has been demolished and we anticipate another 'spreadsheet' block. Let's hope the plaques have been retained. 2...
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