Erection date: 11/8/2013
The British Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London, was given on 21 March 1825 in the Argyll Rooms Concert Hall on this site.
Royal Philharmonic Society
City of Westminster
W1, Regent Street, 252, NatWest Bank
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as par...
Composer. Born (we only have his baptism date) in Bonn (now Germany). His nin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
Created as the Philharmonic Society of London, it had an orchestra which init...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1864 - 1958, creator of the League of Nations, lived here. Greater London Council
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A musical comedy 'Operation Mincemeat' with a plot based on the WW2 Operation Mincemeat has been performed at the Fortune Theatre since M...
In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys, 1633 - 1703, diarist & Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, 1661 - 1724, stat...
Unveiled as part of the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence.
Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
Created by artist John Reardon, in homage to the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, although It appears to be a sulphur-crested cockato...
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