Erection date: 2013
On this site stood the Gaiety Theatre, built in 1903 for impresario George Edwardes. The theatre opened with the performance of 'The Orchid' and until it was closed in 1939 remained the home of musical comedy and one of London's most famous playhouses.
WC2, Strand, Silken Hotel
The building to the east, Marconi House, has close connections to this site and we have recorded some of their joint history there.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gaiety Theatre
Theatre manager. Born Lincolnshire. His cousins were Irish theatre managers ...
Before the Aldwych development in 1906 the street pattern was very different...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Gaiety Theatre
Gaiety Theatre On this site until 1957 stood the re-sited Gaiety Theatre whic...
2016-17: The entire block of buildings was demolished and replaced with massive blocks of student accommodation in what locals have descr...
Site of the Worshipful Company of Broderers' Hall, 1515 to 1940. Corporation of the City of London
Greater London Council George Edmund Street, 1824 - 1881, architect, lived here.
Following a 2016 campaign another memorial was erected nearby to commemorate all those Camberwell citizens lost in WW1.
From Survey of London: This building, designed by A. W. Blomfield, was erected in 1864-5 as a vicarage. Enlarged in 1869, it was converte...
Professor of Land Use and Transport Studies and Dean of Architecture at Cambridge. Born Chile. Awarded an OBE in 2009.
Dr John Fry, 1922 - 1994, pioneering family doctor, world renowned researcher in primary care, & innovator in evidence based medicine...
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