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...
Built as a hospital and old people’s home. The facade is in the style of an early 18th century house but it was built 1912-13, by Castell...
Roger Lloyd Pack, 1944 - 2014, actor, lived here, 1987 - 2014. The Heritage Foundation
Telemark on the left, Coates on the right. At the far right of our picture you can see London Transport's Lost Property Office. Useful t...
Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, 1865 - 1922, newspaper founder and editor, lived here, 1870 - 1873. Erected by the Heath and Hampste...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
Member of the staff of A. W. Gamage Ltd and/or Benetfink & Co. Ltd. Killed in WW1.
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Churchill and variously known as "Churchill's Secret Army", "The Baker Street Irregulars", the Pythonesque "Ministry of Ungent...
Our colleague Alan Patient took a photo of this plaque in 2008 and tells us it was in excellent condtion. 9 years later. on our visit, th...
City of Westminster Rosa Lewis, 1867 - 1952, chef de cuisine and hotelier, dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street', ruled the Cavendis...
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