In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club, also the Coal Hole, the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member.
WC2, Strand, Savoy Buildings
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fountain Tavern
Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of th...
First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Fountain Tavern
We photographed this plaque in 2003 in its original location, along with a Braille panel which does seem to be truly lost.
This building was/is the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital.
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
London County Council Sir George Alexander, 1858 - 1918, actor manager, lived here.
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