Erection date: 7/8/2013
Sammy Davis Jnr performed here, August 1969.
The Hippodrome
The Talk of the Town
Unveiled by Bruce Forsyth.
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 - Sammy Davis Jr.
Born Harlem in New York City into a show-biz family. Hit the big-time in 195...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Sammy Davis Jr.
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 - Sammy Davis Jr.
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...
Judy Garland, 1922 - 1969, "The greatest entertainer who ever lived" performe...
According to Wikipedia the State of Victoria was founded in 1851 so this plaque was erected 16 years too early to commemorate that event....
Designed by Charles Holden and built 1927 – 1929 as HQ for Underground Electric Railways Company of London, the main forerunner of London...
This was a good, well-designed, commemorative stone. But then (we surmise) one of the committee people realised that their efforts had ...
The building is home to the Study Society. Founded in 1951 by Dr. F. C. Roles and his friends who had been associates of Ouspensky, the ...
The Artist Rifles was formed here at the studio of Henry Wyndham Phillips, 1860.
