The Grand Theatre and Opera House stood on this site 1896 - 1959.
Croydon's Heritage
CR0, High Street Croydon, 125
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House
The theatre was opened by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and it originally produced pl...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House
We think the "Croydon's Heritage" plaques must be erected by a section of Cro...
But he did not live in the building here today, he lived in Furnival's Inn.
This building, now a hotel, was the wartime headquarters of the Women's Voluntary Services.
The tower in the symbol looks to us a lot like Hackney's St Augustine's tower. Since the Foundation did not come into being until 1916 we...
Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...
February 2011 and Westminster Council are considering closing the subway. July 2017: Thanks Richard Ruth for reporting that the Strummer...
960 yards (878 metres) long, designed by James Morgan, built over the three years 1815 to 1818. Caroline's Miscellany has a good post.
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
A series of books created by the illusrator Cicely Mary Barker. The first one was published in 1923
Prominent General in WW1 who visited Northern Ireland in March 1922 and spoke his mind on the Irish situation. On 22 June he unveiled the Liverpool Street Station war memorial and then went home to...
One of the three Bee Gees. A proud promoter of British heritage he campaigned for memorials to be erected, was President of Heritage Foundation, often turned up to unveil plaques, and had a very bi...
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