Erection date: 1977
This plaque was dedicated in the Silver Jubilee Year of Her Reign. To Her Majesty, The Queen, who was born here on April 21st 1926.
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The Queen's Silver Jubilee, 1977
W1, Bruton Street, 17
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth's birthplace - Silver Jubilee
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Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
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Queen Elizabeth's birthplace - Silver Jubilee
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Greater London Council Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope), 1863 - 1933, novelist, lived here, 1903 - 1917.
A 'pan artist' plays the traditional West Indian steel drums.
In the picture you can see the plaque: between the two green flags, level with their lower edges.
Odd that the plaque gives the 19th and not the 18th as the date.
Site of St Thomas the Apostle church, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. Corporation of the City of London
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Jazz musician and composer. Born John Philip William Dankworth at 38 Beech Hall Road, Walthamstow (just a few streets away from the plaque). Known as Johnny, he was also an accomplished clarinettis...
Forensic pathologist. Born Leamington Spa, son of a manufacturing chemist. He was a pioneer in the science of determining the cause of death by examining a corpse and gave evidence in many cases ...
Designer. Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel. In WW2 he was approached by the War Office to produce a recruitment poster, and became an official war artist, designing many more posters. After the wa...
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