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
The Grade 2 Listing entry contains: "Nos 9 and 11 ... Pair of terraced town houses. c1690-1700, the small shop windows inserted in mid C1...
Henry Mayhew, 1812 - 1887, founder of 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour and the London Poor', lived here. London County Council
According to Enfield Borough this plaque, together with the remaining plaque, was "at Enfield Town Railway Station in lobby, on east wall...
Sir Arthur Eddington O.M., 1882 - 1944, mathematician and astrophysicist, lived here. Greater London Council
We must thank Londonist's Secrets of the Circle Line by Geoff Marshall for pointing this out to us. The plaque is on the pillar in our p...
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital.
See Joseph Lyons and J. Lyons & Co. The photo is probably c.1930/40s.
First mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi extra Bishopsgate’ in 1212. Repaired in 1671 and partially reconstructed in 1666, after the Great Fire. Demolished in the early C18th. The present church (picture...
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