Plaque

Frank Matcham - Coliseum

Inscription

Frank Matcham (1854 - 1920) theatre architect, designed this theatre.
Frank Matcham Society

We thank our colleague for spotting and snapping this on a recent visit to the ENO. It's located on the landing by the dress circle bar.

WC2, St Martin's Lane

The Matcham plaque is inside, on the landing for the dress circle bar.

The 1950 film Night and the City shows Richard Widmark entering Brydges Place, the extremely narrow passage immediately to the south of this site.

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Theatre architect. Born Newton Abbot, Devon. Never qualified as an architect ...

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London Coliseum Home of English National Opera since 1968, The London Colise...

Building by Lutyens as the Central Club for the YWCA. This foundation stone is low down at the left of the frontage. In 1933 only a few ...

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On this and nearby sites stood Curriers' Hall between 1583 and 1940. Corporation of the City of London

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In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...

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On this site was a social club which operated 1765 - 1871 as Almack's and was then renamed as Willis's Rooms. Wikipedia talks of "a bras...

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George Bernard Shaw lived in this house from 1887 to 1898. "From the coffers of his genius he enriched the world".

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