A public house "The Plumbers Arms" stood on this site c1808 to 1972.
WC1, Hastings Street
2016: With the exception of this tall tower, this entire block of buildings has been demolished and replaced with a single massive block. Meanwhile this tower was renovated, which resulted in the loss of this plaque.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
The Plumbers Arms
The round plaque is on the wall under the main entrance canopy, high up, near the first "E" of Empire. The three brass plaques are in the...
James Hanley, 1897 - 1985, novelist and playwright, lived here. Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association Heritage Lottery Fund
Henry Hall, 1898 - 1989, dance band director and impresario pioneer of BBC popular music (1924 - 1964) lived here 1959 - 1981. City of We...
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. Bedford Park Society
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
Bust 1, to the south, shows some damage but, we hope you agree, both busts represent the same man. But who? Only a few months later we c...
That's not a typo in the transcription - The RWF used the spelling Welch in their title, although its use is not consistent in this memor...
The plaque is on the slanted top of the cylinder behind the hedge. On the top of the rather art nouveauy monument in front is a sun-dial...
This is our third memorial at the junction (Francis Golding, Federica Baldassa) - all to cyclists killed by HGVs at this junction. Road....
2022: Timothy Fox drew our attention to the fact that this building and the plaque have gone (demolished 2018). Yet another spreadsheet t...
