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...
The wording of the Mayo plaque is a little strange. In what way could research give the Leysdown tragedy to the Friends of the Cemetery?...
This plaque can be seen towards the left of our photo, on the brick upright.
The small blue plaque is to the left of the ground floor window.
Greater London Council Sir Henry Dale, 1875 - 1968, physiologist, lived here.
This site was formerly occupied by the Red Hall Picture Palace. Built in 1913, the Red Hall was part of the first wave of new British pic...
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
Vicar at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1888. Wikisource gives: Thomas Daniel Cox Morse. Church of England clergyman and educationist; Rector of Drayton, Nuneaton; Vicar of Christ Church in Lond...
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