Erection date: 31/1/2013
Judy Garland, 1922 - 1969, "The greatest entertainer who ever lived" performed here 1969. Presented by her daughter, Lorna Luft.
The Hippodrome
The Talk of the Town
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 - Judy Garland
born Frances Ethel Gumm in Minnesota, USA. She came to London in 1951, and in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Judy Garland
From Hippodrome Casino: "Originally opened in 1900 by the renowned theatre ar...
Daughter of Judy Garland by her third husband, Sidney Luft. She has worked i...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Judy Garland
Sir Bruce appeared eight times between May 1964 and February 1981 and unveile...
The plaque refers to the London Daily Mirror newspaper which challenged Houdi...
Fixed to the wall above this plaque is a small black relief depicting five children playing in a pastoral setting. It's rather lovely an...
The WW2 plaque is very high up on the wall behind the arches and can only be read from a zoomed-in photo. The naming is confusing. This ...
The bronze plaque is at the entrance to the building which is the third bay to the right of these two blue plaques.
Installed by 19 September 2016, with little ceremony.
Harry Leopold Pollak was born on 18 July 1885 in Marylebone, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the eight children of Joseph Pollak (1847-1927) and Emma Jane Pollak née Goldmann (1863-19...
Person, Armed Forces, Gardens / Agriculture, Argentina, France
Born Northumberland. Journalist and broadcaster for the BBC, known for her work as a war correspondent.
Born Aberdeen, Scotland. During the WW1 he was awarded the British and Victory medals, which he had himself designed. Died in hospital, Richmond, Surrey, following a mugging. Other London work: the...
Thomas Arthur Darcy Braddell was an architect, credited with designing these war memorials. Normally the sculptural work would be carried out by another person, a sculptor, but for none of Braddell...
King of England. Son of Ethelred the Unready. Born between 1003 and 1005 at Islip, near Oxford. He is regarded as the last king of the house of Wessex. Little is known of his early life, except tha...
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