Borough and Bankside blue plaques
Borough and Bankside blue plaques
Below is the complete list of blue plaques awarded for Borough and Bankside, including full inscription and location.
Bert Hardy
1913-1995
Photographer
Born and grew up in the Priory
"The man behind the camera"
Voted by the People
113 Webber Street
Borough
London SE1
Borough Market
London's oldest fruit and veg market
Voted by the People
To be installed
Borough Market
London SE1
Charles Dickens
1812 to 1870
Writer, journalist and social reformer
Voted by the People
Charles Dickens Primary School
Lant Street
London SE1 1QP
Clink, The
1151-1780
Most notorious medieval prison
Voted by the People
Clink Prison Museum
Soho Wharf
Clink Street
London SE1 9DG
Harry Cole
Voluntary worker, Policeman, Writer
Attended this school
1934-40
Charles Dickens Primary School
Toulmin Street
London SE1 1QP
John Harvard
First Benefactor of Harvard University
Born in Southwark, baptized in the cathedral and educated in the parish's grammar school
Sailed to Massachusetts, 1637
John Harvard Library
211 Borough High Street
London SE1 1JA
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 to 1797
Writer, teacher and champion of women's rights
45 Dolben Street
London SE1
Octavia Hill
Social Reformer
Established this garden, hall and cottages, and pioneered Army Cadets
1887-90
Bishop's Hall
East Front Facing Red Cross Garden
Redcross Way
London SE1
Rose Theatre, The
Built here in 1587
First Elizabethan Theatre of Bankside
Voted by the People
The Rose Theatre
21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT
Sam Wanamaker
1919 to 1993
Visionary who created Shakespeare's Globe
Voted by the People
New Globe Buildings
Bankside
London SE1
Stainer Street Arch Bombing
On the night of 17th February 1941 a bomb fell onto the arch where people were sheltering from the air raid
68 died and 175 were injured
Voted by the People
Stainer Street Arch
London SE1 9SS
Tabard Inn
Geoffrey Chaucer
1342 to 1400. England's greatest medieval poet and author of the "Canterbury Tales"
The Tabard Inn
Site from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off in April 1386
Voted by the People
Talbot Yard
London SE1
