The Cross Keys Heritage: Dylan Thomas, J. M. W. Turner, Agatha Christie, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Bob Marley, 1708 - 2012, celebrated figures drank here.
But not Dickens?
SW3, Lawrence Street, Cross Keys
This pub was first built in 1708 and is considered the oldest pub in Chelsea.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cross Keys pub
Detective novelist and playwright. Born in Torquay, into a well-off family, ...
Robert Nesta Marley, singer, lyricist and Rastafarian icon. His reggae songs ...
Born Florence, Italy. Prolific American painter, specializing in portraits. A...
Poet. Born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, which is now a themed holiday renta...
Born (on St George's Day) in Covent Garden. Even as he became successful he r...
The biblical quotation is from: Matthew 19:14, or Luke 18:16, or Mark 10:13-15, take your pick.
MyLondon informs: "{The old church} gained Grade II listed status in 1951. In 1989, renovation began, with English Heritage providing fin...
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Mountbatten.
The plaque has the Ethiopian/pan-African/Rastafari tri-colours around the edge. Unveiled during Covid restrictions to a few people, socia...
Sir Charles Barry, 1795 - 1860, architect, lived and died here. L.C.C.
The carving on the plinth is attractive with a snake knotted into a figure of eight above the lettering, art nouveau capitals at each cor...
We spotted this photo of a plaque on the ever-fruitful Spitalfields Life. That page suggests that the photo probably dates from the 1920s...
This 7 foot statue was unveiled to mark the completion of the Cannon Street Station renovation and the 400th anniversary of the granting ...
The plaque is in front of a tree stump, so that accounts for the "lost" tree but it is mid-way between a holly and a deciduous tree so it...
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