Representation of a london county council tablet marking the site of houses in which resided the engineer john rennie and the caricaturist john leech, erected 21st march 1929. The plaque was lost to subsequent redevelopment of the site in 1971. 340x500 png based on a monochrome line drawing from "indication of houses of historical interest in london - volume vi published by the london county council in 1938 with the colour coat-of-arms copied from my own photograph of the similar surviving plaque in bow street. The name of the author is given as the london county council, the principal local government body for the county of london throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965. The individual authors/artists are not named in the book. Volumes i-iii include a forward by sir laurence gomme, clerk to london county council, who died in 1915. Volume iv includes a forward by sir james bird, clerk to london county council who died in 1925. Volume vi includes a forward by george gater, clerk to london county council who died in 1963. Date: 1 January 1938.
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