City of Westminster
Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers, including Belloc, Chesterton, Conrad and Galsworthy met regularly in the early years of the 20th century.
W1, Gerrard Street, 16
Built in 1730.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mont Blanc restaurant
Poet, essayist and historian. Born France. Catholic. His works include 'Caut...
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton....
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not b...
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literatu...
Opened sometime early in the 20th century by Alphonse Pasquier. Edward Garnet...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mont Blanc restaurant
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
English Heritage Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, 1841 - 1917, colonial administrator, lived and died here.
Clarion House stands on an historic site in St Anne's Court which passed from the crown to the Duke of Portland in the 17th century. For...
The "recreation ground in Tanner Street, SE1" is Tanner Street Park.
Greater London Council William Smith, M.P., 1756 - 1835, pioneer of religious liberty, lived here.
English Heritage Sir Harry Ricardo, 1885 - 1974, mechanical engineer was born here.
Poet, essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. Born in the house called The Spread Eagle in Bread Street, Cheapside. Left London to study in Cambridge but found all the dull debates in Latin ...
The bronze relief depicts, in cross section, the interior of a submarine in which sailors carry out their work in cramped conditions. On ...
Esme Percy, once famous as a producer and star of stage and 50 films, but forgotten since his death in 1957. Born London of French ancestry, as Saville Esmé Percy. A good looking stage star and th...
Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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