Site of Theatre Royal Marylebone, 1832 – 1959, also known as the Royal West London Theatre. Home of the Victorian dramatic & music h...
Unveiled in the presence of Joy, his widow, and their son, Dominique.
Why (Oh why, oh why) do people chose dark, coloured granite for inscriptions? The mottling in the granite can make the text almost impos...
This street was first called Portland Place and George was born at no. 9, so we guess the street got renumbered as well as renamed. By 1...
The house was known as Water House when the Morrises moved in, after the death of the father of the family. Frank Lloyd (Edward's son) g...
The plaque gives the date of Cromwell's death rather than the date of his exhumation, three years later. And the fact of the dismemberme...
Unless we missed it, there is no blue plaque for Bishops Gate (nor for the river gates Billings and Dow), though we have found them for t...
The etching seems to be of late 17th century date but, like Discovering London, we cannot find it on the web so cannot name the artist. ...
The monument is made of fine-grained gabbro, polished to a black, mirror-like surface, and sits on contrasting pale matt granite. Unveil...
York Way, which runs from King's Cross up to Camden Road, used to be called Maiden (corruption of midden, meaning dung heap) Lane. From ...
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