Erection date: 9/10/1985
Historic House
The London home from 1970 of Benjamin Britten, composer (1913 - 1976).
London Borough of Islington
Unveiled by Sir Peter Pears.
N1, Halliford Street, 8b
Plaque actually in Morton Road. Britten and Peter Pears had a studio here from 1970 to 1976.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Benjamin Britten - N1
Composer. Born Lowestoft on St Cecilia's Day (patron saint of music). Royal C...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Benjamin Britten - N1
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Tenor singer. Born Farnham. Lived with Benjamin Britten, who composed for hi...
1813 - 1814, Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein, lived in a house on this site during the last of her ten years of exile. La Soci...
Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969 - 2010, fashion designer, lived here from 2001 - 2005. London Borough of Islington Islington People's Plaque
The plaque is on the end wall of the Gallery in Newport Street. We think this plaque was erected as part of the “Gavin Turk: Who What Wh...
This building was erected in the 1930s. Actor Angela Lansbury contributed to the 2008 restoration of the clock.
The plaque does not make it clear that the early history all took place at another site; there was no church or chapel on this site until...
Photographed and numbered from north to south. A nearby information board: On your right is the old Roman road to the south coast (now t...
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