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...
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
Lord David Sheppard, 1929 - 2005, England cricket captain, Bishop of Woolwich then Bishop of Liverpool. Lived here from 1969 to 1975. Pec...
Borough of Hornsey ERII 2 June 1953 Awarded to the residents of Bryanstone Road for their Coronation decorations.
English Heritage Sir Norman Hartnell, 1901 - 1979, court dressmaker, lived and worked here, 1935 - 1979.
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on the building but on one of those easel things often used fo...
Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in 2009 on roads in Britain. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Many of the drivers o...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
The Transport Trust is a charitable institution that aims to increase and channel support for transport preservation, acting as the hub of the transport preservation movement. More about their pla...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
2022: We were contacted by David Bieda who wrote: "Meard Street plaque. I’d like a credit as I wrote all that you have used including the...
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