SE1, Lambeth Walk, Chandler Hall
We've numbered the mosaics left to right. The text plaque is to the right of the curved wall, just out of sight of our camera. Chaplin certainly lived his early life in the Lambeth area but we can find nothing to associate him with Lambeth Walk. Until 2024, when David Smith wrote to say: "On page 37 of the Penguin edition of Charlie's autobiography he recalls walking in Lambeth Walk." Thanks David.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chaplin mosaics 3
Born Charles Spencer Chaplin in East Street, Walworth (possibly, see Londonis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Chaplin mosaics 3
The BFI date the Hippodrome performance to Christmas 1900. The quote about a ...
English Heritage In this house the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848.
The Artist Rifles was formed here at the studio of Henry Wyndham Phillips, 1860.
This plaque is identical to the one erected at King's Cross St. Pancras.
Our photo is taken from the east. In the background you can see the inside of the retained arched stone entrance to The Colonnade from G...
The Camden Palace was home to the Goon Show through the 1950s.
Herbert Allatson Heavingham was born in 1894 in Saxmundham, Suffolk, the second of the three children of Herbert Edward Heavingham (1867-1942) and Christianna Heavingham née Taylor (1867-1943). His...
By 2008 when we heard about this plaque it had been hidden/removed behind long-term building works. From Network Rail we learnt that it ...
The plaque is on the side of the house in Hampstead Way. Tait lived here for 21 years in the 1920s and 30s.
Eric Francis Stofer was born in 1899 in Tottenham, Middlesex (now Greater London), the 5th son of Robert Stofer (1860-1939) and Mary Elizabeth Stofer née Dibben (1863-1950). His birth was registere...
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