Erection date: 10/10/2017
Site of the Finsbury Park Empire Theatre, 1910 - 1960, home to music hall and variety entertainment.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
N4, St Thomas’s Road, Vaudville Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Finsbury Park Empire Theatre
Designed by Frank Matcham. One of London’s most popular variety theatres. Her...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Finsbury Park Empire Theatre
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Victorian London has a wonderful contemporary description of the ice pit. In 1895 this Gatti ice house was taken over by a toy manufactur...
The plaque is on the grass beneath the group of trees in the photograph.
St Stephens was erected in 1847-9, designed by Benjamin Ferrey, and funded by Angela Burdett-Coutts. The small south chapel of 1904 is v...
Emile Zola spent almost 11 months in London, self-exiled from France. Most of that time he was staying at this hotel. In his excellent bo...
The plaque is at the side of the building, in Buttercross Lane.
Nurse, statistician, author. Born in Italy (go on, guess which city) while her parents were on the grand tour. Her sister was born one year earlier in Naples, and named Frances Parthenope, the Gree...
1698 At Jonathan’s Coffee House John Castaing published a list of currency, stock and commodity prices It included prices for gold, ducats, silver staters and pieces of eight. 1773 A more formal...
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