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...
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Hammer Films Leading film production company based at Elstree from 1968. Home of the British horror film. Commemorating the centenary of ...
Our photos was taken during a 2018 exhibition 'The Classical Now' during which these two muscle-men came over all modest. The 2 huge fig...
The inscription on the upper plaque requires careful examination to read but it is all legible. We have found two references to these sto...
Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...
Church recorded since the 13th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire 1666, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1841 so that Threadneedle Street could be widened.
In the photo the plaque is above the snowman's head. One doesn't get to say that very often.
Television personality and author. Born Raymond Paul Mears in Kenley, Croydon. Presenter of several television programmes about bushcraft and survival techniques.
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