Westminster City Council
Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764.
Honsway C&E Foundation
W1, Gerrard Street, 9
This is the only surviving purpose-built 18th century tavern, now in 2011, a Chinese deli.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
The (Literary) Club was founded in the Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street, by...
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
In our photo the plaque can just be seen, inside the entrance to the Court.
On the pier between numbers 13 and 14: "Shaftesbury House, Hoxton Market Christian Mission".
English Heritage Roger Fenton, 1819 - 1869, photographer, lived here.
London Borough of Southwark Richard Church, 1893-1972, writer and poet, lived here, 1905-1912. Plaque renewed 2010.
