John Christopher Smith, Handel's friend and secretary, 1712 - 1763, lived and died here.
The dates on the plaque confuse Smith (1712 - 1795) with his father, Johann Christoph Schmidt (1683–1762/3), also confusingly later known as John Christopher Smith.
W1, Carlisle Street, 6
SPAB provides an interesting history of this house and the area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Christopher Smith
Composer. Born Ansbach, Germany. Following his father he arrived in London in...
Wallace Fund identifies this house as 'Pen-y-Bryn' which Wallace rented 1880 - May 1881. There is a timeline there giving his other addre...
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is one way of expressing 'peace' in Japanese.
We don't know when the tree was planted but presume it was a sapling at the time. We photographed it in 2013 so anyone who knows their tr...
The plaque is located on a block of flats at the far end of a 'gated' estate. Even our longest lens setting could not produce a reasonabl...
43 - 53 Myddelton Square Destroyed by enemy action on 11th January 1941. Rebuilt 1947 - 1948 by The New River Company.
The building used to be the residence for the United States Ambassador to the Court of St James's (i.e. Britain) a post held, 1938 - 1940...
We wondered what brought about this gathering of kings (four if you include the host, King Edward III), but could not track down any refe...
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