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
"These gardens" no longer surround this monument as apparently they once did. It seems the monument has been moved as, according to Expl...
Robert Willan was the founder of dermatology in Britain, so it's fairly certain that the house is named after him.
This page of Pepys' Diary is given at The Diary of Samuel Pepys with lots of explanatory links.
The Hackney Society has done a thorough job researching the history of this building, with lots of pictures. A brief summary: Built abo...
The south-east corner of this park is a fenced off formal garden, through which one can walk. We visited on the Saturday before Remembran...
Spenser to the left; Bacon to the right. The frieze announces proudly 'Islington Central Library'. Above the keystone of the porch the da...
Virginians seem keen on sending us their soil: in 1921 they gave us a statue of one of their great men, George Washington, along with som...
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
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