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...
Unveiled by Simon Callow, who was the first actor to play the part of Mozart in the Peter Shaffer play 'Amadeus', at the National Theatre...
Despite the address the building with its plaque is actually in Devonshire Street.
The Cherub Gate The cherub above is a gift to Trinity Church from the church of St Mary le Bow in London which was designed by Sir Christ...
We believe a 2-horse carriage pole is the long horizontal bar between the pair of horses that connects them to the body of the carriage.
The creators of the access cover have a web page for it, where we learnt that is is a one-off Thames Water-specified Wrekin Unite D400 ma...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey Docks area, and maybe others elsewhere. We tried Google's image search and the results made us laugh; being an array of...
Benefactor. The 'Carpinter' on the plaque is thought to indicate his livelihood rather than his surname.
The building contains a staircase down to the tunnel and pedestrian footpath. The photograph is of this airshaft's partner on the north bank.
We can find nothing about this but guess it is some offshoot of the Russian embassy.
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