Erection date: 22/8/2018
Site of the Red Bull Playhouse, c.1605 - 1665, 17th-century theatre.
London Borough of Islington
Seems they found so little information about this theatre that they filled the space on the plaque with tautology (specific dates and '17th century').
Unveiled by Alexander Armstrong, a descendent of Edward Somerset, fourth earl of Worcester, one-time patron of the Red Bull Theatre.
EC1, Hayward’s Place, 3
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Bull Theatre
The inn's owner converted the inn-yard into the theatre. Parliament banned th...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Red Bull Theatre
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Samuel Pepys, 1633 - 1703, diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty, lived here, 1679 - 1688. London County Council
With no other information we cannot identify "M.M.S.E. de N." so we are rather stumped. The poem is by Mary Hall but the voice could be ...
English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.
Southern Railway (SR on the plaque) lost their ownership of Waterloo when the railways were nationalised in 1948 so the plaque was probab...
Gosh, there was a time when this area suffered from a 'shortage of funds'!
