Erection date: 12/5/2009
City of Westminster
Home of BBC School Radio, 1952 - 1993, pioneer of education for children through radio broadcasting.
Plaque unveiled by the then Mayor of Westminster, Louise Hyams.
W1, Portland Place, 1
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
BBC School Radio
The first broadcast was made by Sir Walford Davies, professor of music at Gre...
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the Briti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
BBC School Radio
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Nothing to do with Stothard but interesting anyway: Newman Passage, just south of this plaque, was the location in Michael Powell's 1960 ...
We thank David Hopkins, our Latin consultant, for yet again providing the Latin translation, without which we really would have no idea w...
London County Council John Burns, 1858-1943, statesman, lived here.
Florence Keen, 1868 - 1942, founder of North Islington School for Mothers, later Manor Gardens Centre. London Borough of Islington Manor ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 - 1951, pre-eminent Viennese philosopher & mathematician, worked incognito at Guy's Hospital pharmacy as dr...
Old Limehouse, built around 1705 and demolished in 1935. The original door is held by the Ragged School Museum, Bow, E3.
J.P., Churchwarden and chairman of the St Pancras Vestry in 1897.
Natural history collector. Born at the family seat near Manchester where he also died. His museum was at Leicester House on the northern side of Leicester Square and called the Holophusikon, or Hol...
Politician and writer. Born Milston, Wiltshire.
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