Erection date: 28/9/2010
Seven Dials Trust
{Golden hind image}
Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager and impresario, worked here, 1963 - 1964.
Unveiled by Cilla Black.
The Cerynitis or Golden Hind originates in Greek myth. It was the symbol of the parish of St Giles and has been adopted by the Seven Dials Trust.
WC2, Monmouth Street, 13
This was Epstein's first London office.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Brian Epstein - WC2
Beatles' manager and impresario. Born Liverpool. Homosexual and artistic, bri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Brian Epstein - WC2
Unveiled in the presence of Joy, his widow, and their son, Dominique.
It is known (from British History On-line) that in 1912 properties in Gilston Road were renumbered, but the details are not given. One ca...
Speedie, resident tortoise, 1978 to 2014, is buried nearby. Slayer of bananas & busy lizzies.
The overflow pipe is not part of the memorial.
This is the foundation stone of the tower.
Church warden at Christ Church Spitalfields in 1836. At Wikia we found a Thomas Brushfield who we think must be our man: A businessman and local politician. Born Derbyshire, he moved to London whe...
Group Captain Charles Francis Ambrose, CBE, DFC, AFC, was born on 27 January 1917 at 49 Durham Road, Plumstead, (subsequently renamed as Durham Rise, London, SE18), the younger child of Albert Fran...
