Erection date: 7/8/2013
Sir Bruce Forsyth performed here 8 times.
The Hippodrome
The Talk of the Town
Sir Bruce appeared eight times between May 1964 and February 1981 and unveiled this plaque and the one for his friend Sammy Davis on the same day.
WC2, Cranbourn Street, Hippodrome casino
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Bruce Forsyth
TV presenter and all-round entertainer. Born Edmonton. Sunday Night at the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Bruce Forsyth
From Hippodrome Casino: "Originally opened in 1900 by the renowned theatre ar...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Bruce Forsyth
The plaque refers to the London Daily Mirror newspaper which challenged Houdi...
Judy Garland, 1922 - 1969, "The greatest entertainer who ever lived" performe...
Walham Green Station This Grade II listed building was originally the entrance arcade and booking hall of Walham Green Station on the Dis...
And they say that no one ever put up a plaque to a committee! Ornamental Passions points out the flowers and the rustic fence.
The name Joseph Dixon appears in both the lists on the plaque: a Trustee and a Churchwarden.
Pembroke Park Pembroke Park takes its name from the World War II base HMS Pembroke V. From 1943 to 1945 it was an outstation of the Gover...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombing of German cities towards the end of WW2. (V stands for Vergeltungswaffe - retribution weapon'). In total, over 3,000 V...
Actor, dramatist and theatre manager. Born Hereford. Left home and travelled to London with Samuel Johnson. As a friend of the Adams brothers he was in 1772, one of the first residents in their new...
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