Sir Edward Elgar lived in a house on this site, 1911 - 1921. Here he composed The Music Makers, Falstaff, The Spirit of England.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Netherhall Gardens, 42 - 44
The Elgars called this home Severn House, to remember the Worcestershire countryside. Elgar Memorial Trust have a photo and floor plan of the house and a suggestion that it was designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
Born in Broadheath, near Worcester. First moved to London on his marriage in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
The photograph of the plaque is taken from Derek Sumeray's book 'Discovering ...
Erected in 1937 by the 6th Marquess of Northampton Estate surveyor - P. F. Story FSI Architect - Alan Brace FRIBA Builders - Gee, Walker ...
The dates on the plaque differ from those usually given: date of birth varies but date of death is normally given as 26 October 899. We c...
The inscription is a quote from William Morris's 1890 "News from Nowhere", in which the narrator, William Guest, the previous day having ...
Plaque unveiled by the then Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Catherine Longworth and Miles Stead his great great grandson.
When we first spotted this plaque it was brass and quite brief. Sometime around 2009 it was replaced with the classy inscribed stone plaq...
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