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 ...
From City of London : "Isleden House was built in 1948 by the Trustees of the London Parochial Charities. In 1953 the Trustees conveyed t...
St. Johns Church was built in 1845 in the early English gothic style by John Hargrave Stevens and George Alexander. This site on the summ...
This may have been some sort of official address but it seems he actually lived in Cannes for those 30 years.
The upper of the 2 blue plaques.
We hope this architectural smash-up is taken as a warning to other developers of just how wrong facadism can be. Historic England have ...
Born Germany. Considered the founder of organic chemistry and "father of the fertilizer industry". He also was behind the company that trademarked the Oxo cube and made the invention of Marmite p...
Wealthy businessman living in London, 70 South Audley Street, who introduced the Duke of Windsor to golf. More importantly he initiated the Eagle Squadrons whereby American pilot volunteers could h...
Not a branch of the Freemasons, as the terminology might suggest, but a branch of The Oddfellows and at their website we learn that the l...
