{Beside a blue line drawing of the Globe Theatre:}
In thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker CBE, actor, director, producer, 1919 - 1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish.
SE1, Cathedral Street, Southwark Cathedral
The Wanamaker plaque is to the right of the Shakespeare memorial.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Created when the lease ran out for The Theatre in 1597 so the building was di...
Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Carved into the panel behind the figure are images of the original Globe Thea...
Donald Swann, 1923 - 1994, composer, songwriter and entertainer, lived here 1961 - 1994. The Battersea Society
These two plaques tell a complex story which we only fully understood once we found this UCL paper. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St Mary's Ch...
High on the front, at the left is the Sunday Schools plaque, and on the right the Memorial School plaque. The McArthur stone is low on th...
The part of the building fronting Queen Square was redeveloped and opened (although this is not mentioned on the plaque) by the Prince of...
Alfred Bestall, 1892 - 1986, illustrator of Rupert Bear, lived here 1936 - 1966. English Heritage
