City of Westminster
The Queen's Hall, 1893 - 1941, site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded the promenade concerts in 1895. The Queen's Hall was destroyed in the Blitz of 1941.
British Broadcasting Corporation
W1, Langham Place, Henry Wood House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen's Hall
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Conductor and composer. The first British-born career conductor. Born in Lon...
Opened in 1893, destroyed by the Luftwaffe on 10 May 1941. 2024: Described o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen's Hall
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the Briti...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
The building to the east, Marconi House, has close connections to this site and we have recorded some of their joint history there.
Somewhere we read about this house where the "surname is recorded in a rebus in the tiling of the front step". On our first visit, 2008, ...
From Londonist we believe there is an identical plaque at the nearby Wick Lane Depot, which we think is south of Wick Lane, immediately w...
Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-3, and wrote Martin Chuzzlewit, based partly on his time in ...
The wall of buses made photographing this building rather difficult.
