Site of First Synagogue after the resettlement, 1657 - 1701.
Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Sure looks like a City of London plaque but the text around the edge is different. We're guessing that the Congregation funded the plaque but the City has responsibility for its maintenance.
EC3, Creechurch Lane
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First synagogue after resettlement
A house in Creechurch Lane was converted to a synagogue for the Sephardi Jews...
In 1290Â Edward IÂ expelled Jews from England and for centuries, apart from tho...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
First synagogue after resettlement
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Initially called 'sha'arhashamayim', the Gate of Heaven, this was the first p...
{At the top, with the crossed laurel leaves:} L.C.C. {In the main area:} Samuel Phelps, 1804 - 1878, tragedian, lived here.
The quotation is from Psalm 41, the King James Version. While at school, Shaftesbury, a Christian teenager, witnessed a pauper's funeral...
Site of the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers, 1603 - 1796. City of LondonÂ
London County Council F. E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, 1872 - 1930, lawyer and statesman, lived here.
Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978 newsletter of the East London History Society "A Tombstone...
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