Erection date: 1909
Thomas Park F.S.A. "The poetical antiquary", born 1759, died 1834, and his son, John James Park, author of the first History of Hampstead, born 1795, died 1833, lived here.
Erected by The Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society, 1909.
NW3, Church Row, 18
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Park & J J Park
Author of the first History of Hampstead which he published aged 16. Celebr...
"The poetical antiquary", bibliographer and engraver. He published his own ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Park & J J Park
Sir Walter Besant was the first president and the local historians Thomas Bar...
Dr John Alcindor, 1873 - 1924, physician, Pan-Africanist and WW1 local hero, had his surgery here, 1913 - 1924. Nubian Jak Community Trus...
Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 1666. Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world...
2018: We are grateful to Sugár Istvánné Ilona for pointing out that the plaque's Hungarian is incorrect: "Liszt Târsagâg" should read "Li...
London county Council John Harrison, 1693 - 1776, inventor of the marine chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
The round plaque above reads "London Architecture Medal, 1937, RIBA" and is normally considered sufficient advertisement of the building'...
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