Watch-house, erected 1791, destroyed 1941, rebuilt 1962.
Site: Charles Lamb - Giltspur Street (2 memorials)
EC1, Giltspur Street, 10
Watch-house, erected 1791, destroyed 1941, rebuilt 1962.
EC1, Giltspur Street, 10
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Watch-house in Giltspur Street
A watch house was an early form of local police station but we've heard it sa...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Watch-house in Giltspur Street
Ornamental Passions have a good post on this memorial, saying that Lamb is sh...
At British History On-line we read that it closed in 1923, not 1915 as per the plaque.
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
Laurie Cunningham, 1956 - 1989, football legend, pioneering England international, played for Leyton Orient FC, 1974 - 1977. Nubian Jak C...
That's all well and good, but was there a maze? All that text and not a word about the maze. Elsewhere we've read that 'maze pond' was ...
From Survey of London: This building, designed by A. W. Blomfield, was erected in 1864-5 as a vicarage. Enlarged in 1869, it was converte...
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