Erection date: 2002
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon & chemist Henry Stephens, shared lodgings while studying at Guy's & St Thomas' hospitals, (1815-1816).
Guy's & St. Thomas' Charities Foundation
Unveiled as part of the 'Re-weaving Rainbows' event of National Science Week 2002.
SE1, St Thomas Street, 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, wh...
Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. ...
Founded by Thomas Guy in concept in 1721 but it was not until 6 January 1725 ...
Named after Thomas a Becket, so possibly founded after 1173 when Becket was c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
It can trace its origins back to 1553, when King Edward VI re-established St ...
This is the plaque that was first erected nearby.
Google Street View shows this plaque in situ 2008 - 2014 but lost by June 2015. We have the Russian Embassy to thank for drawing this lo...
The buildings in our photo of the old site have been replaced and the plaque has been moved to a building behind. We took this photo on ...
There are four 'Mercers' Maidens' on the block. Next door is the Convent of Sisters of Mercy, which also has a maiden.
Born Cincinnatti USA 1926, Caroline DeCamp Benn, author teacher and socialist, lived and worked here, died London 2000.
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