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...
Faded London have done some great research on the history behind this plaque.
English Heritage Anthony Salvin, 1799 - 1881, architect, lived here.
We find the terminology used on the information board confusing; 'bastion' is used when 'ha-ha' would make more sense. British History s...
The unveiling is reported at The Music Hall Guild. The plaque is just visible in our picture, in the porch.
The vicars mentioned on the plaques would both have belonged to All Saints, the church immediately to the north. Disappointingly we have ...
Civil Engineer. Born Norfolk. President of The Institute of Civil Engineers. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851, and Chairman of its Building committee. Also designed a louvred...
A 1908 article in the New York Times nicely describes the king as being in "infinite toggery" and suggests the statue was unveiled in lat...
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