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...
Royalty Mansions was built in 1908 as flats with workrooms for tailors. It was purchased for improvement by the Soho Housing Association...
In a house on this site, the "Swan & Hoop", John Keats, poet, was born, 1795. The Corporation of the City of London
The text is engraved on the wall at the new (2017) entrance in Exhibition Road, but the damage can be seen all the way down to Cromwell R...
"Lest we forget" is a quote from Kipling, often used on war memorials for WW1 and after. The coat of arms used on this memorial comprise...
McGlashon House This block was built in 1961 by Stepney Borough Council and was named after Hugh William McGlashon (1872 - 1953) who serv...
Fuel company. The name is a phonetic representation of the initials of the company's predecessor Standard Oil. In 1972 it was generally replaced by the name Exxon.
The Les Mis plaque is laid in the ground at the front, audience, entrance.
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Here lived Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield, born 1633 : died 1713, also Philip, third Earl and Philip Dorner, fourth Earl of Chesterf...
Adam Faith (Terry Nelhams), 1940 - 2003, singer & actor born in a house on this site, destroyed by a V1 bomb in 1944. Ealing Council ...
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