W. Friese-Greene
SW3, King’s Road, 208, Chelsea Cinema
Friese-Greene’s studio and laboratory were located on this site. The current building was originally the Gaumont Palace cinema, built in1934. It closed in 1972. The foyer and stalls became the current Habitat store and the small cinema next door was created in the balcony area.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Friese-Greene
Photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography. Born Bristol as William...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Friese-Greene
Sculptor. Born Forest Gate. His cousin was a cinema architect which probabl...
Fryderyk Chopin, 1810-1849, gave his first London concert in this house, June 23 1848.
When this house was badly damaged by bombs in 1940 Christie and her husband went to live at the modernist Lawn Road flats, now the Isokon...
A charming old plaque, erected only 22 years after the artist's death.
Roy Hattersley, a Bennett enthusiast, unveiled the plaque.
