Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina assolluta and Jacqueline du Pré, cellist lived here.
Lisa O'Brien has pointed out that the plaque-makers got 'assoluta' wrong.
Site: Margot Fonteyn & J. du Pre (1 memorial)
SW7, Rutland Gardens Mews, 2
Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina assolluta and Jacqueline du Pré, cellist lived here.
Lisa O'Brien has pointed out that the plaque-makers got 'assoluta' wrong.
SW7, Rutland Gardens Mews, 2
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Margot Fonteyn & J. du Pre
Cellist. Born Jacqueline Mary du Pré in Oxford. Her musical training began wi...
Prima ballerina assoluta. Born Reigate as Margaret Hookham. As a child lived...
2013: The ground floor is occupied by the Shooting Star pub, the upper floors are residential.
Tide gauge house It was vital for the correct operation of the lock that the men on duty knew the exact state of the tide. This building ...
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
Stevie Smith, 1902 - 1971, poet, lived here 1906 - 1971. English Heritage
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
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