Erection date: 25/10/1976
The National Theatre, opened by the Queen on 25 October 1976, designed for the South Bank Theatre Board by Denys Lasdun.
SW1, Belvedere Road, National Theatre
This group of plaques is in the ground floor seating area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
National Theatre foundation - 1976
First proposed in 1848, the gestation of the NT is complex (see the NT's own ...
Architect. Born 17 Pembridge Place, Kensington. Died at Charing Cross Hospi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
National Theatre foundation - 1976
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
National Theatre foundation - 1976
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experien...
{Around Her head:} HM Queen Elizabeth Patron Royal National Theatre This pla...
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to Sir Alfred Munnings) is spurious and was erected by developers purely t...
The Stella was a passenger ferry in service with the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that was wrecked on 30 March 1899 off the Ca...
These alsmshouses are often called Trinity Almshouses which confuses them with the Deptford Trinity Alsmhouses. We have photographed the...
To the left, just out of view of our camera there is a petrol station. This is where the Hitchcock family greengrocers used to stand and...
Felix Mendelssohn, 1809 - 1847, composer stayed here. English Heritage
Architectural sculptor. Born Westminster. Son of architectural sculptor Samuel Poole and brother of painter Samuel Jr. He studied with G. F. Watts and was a Studio assistant on Physical Energy. Pro...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Founded by Elias Davy (the correct spelling of his name), and originally built for seven people of either sex and enlarged for twelve people in 1875. Residents transferred to newly built almshous...
Born Whatlington, near Robertsbridge, Sussex as Barbara Leigh Smith. Painter and women’s activist. Married the physician Eugène Bodichon in 1857. She set up the English Women’s Journal and led the ...
Not strictly a memorial but irresistible to include. As railway lines were constructed through densely built-up parts of London, they of...
