Site of St. Margaret's Church (13th century) and the Borough Compter.
Historic Southwark
SE1, Borough High Street, 32 - 34, a pub (name keeps changing)
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter
Courthouse and prison. The building was part of St Margaret's Church, which w...
The church was in existence from at least the early 12th century. At the refo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter
Credit to Researching the Past for the splendid research on the names on this...
The bronze statue on the plinth is of an infantryman tramping through mud. Th...
This rather attractive building, designed as a Police Station by Sydney Perks, was erected in 1926. The foundation stone is to the right ...
Initially we were puzzled why the Corporation of the City of London would erect a plaque so far to the west of its patch, but our colleag...
Deptford Creek This is the mouth of the River Ravensbourne, first bridged in 1804. the Domesday Book of 1086 noted many watermills nearb...
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
We take this opportunity to thank the posties of London: not only do they do a great job delivering our letters but, on occasion, unwitti...
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