Erection date: 4/12/2019
In August 1898 Fred Gaisberg and The Gramophone Company opened Europe's first disc recording studio on this site.
Westminster City Council
James Hall & EMI Archive Trust
Queen's drummer Roger Taylor unveiled the plaque.
WC2, Maiden Lane, Fire and Stone, 31
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for the photos.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Europe's first disc recording studio
In 1898 The Gramophone Company moved into the building with the plaque and st...
American musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Europe's first disc recording studio
From their website: "The EMI Archive Trust was established in 1996. The EMI G...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Writer and journalist. James Hall started the campaign to commemorate the fir...
Remaking English reports on the plaque unveiling and informs that this 1905 school building is the only surviving block from the original...
These two plaques tell a complex story which we only fully understood once we found this UCL paper. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St Mary's C...
Unveiled by local resident and actor Tim McInnerny. Source: On London.
These 4 stones are evenly spaced on the horizontal surface of the rim of the pond. We have numbered them clockwise, starting at the west....
From the Conservation Area Audit we learn: The Regency Estate consists of 4 red brick mansion blocks mainly designed by Joseph and Smitha...
This house is on the corner of the street in which Ida Mann was born, Fordwych Road, number 67. She lived in Minster Road aged 9 - 41.
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
The London Borough of Hackney Jeremy Feakes, 1972 - 2007, designer, entrepreneur and founder of the Urban Golf Tournament, lived here.
The two plaques closest to the camera both read "39, The Union Discount Company of London plc". Grey's plaque is at the same level, furt...
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