City of Westminster
The Queen's Hall, 1893 - 1941, site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded the promenade concerts in 1895. The Queen's Hall was destroyed in the Blitz of 1941.
British Broadcasting Corporation
W1, Langham Place, Henry Wood House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen's Hall
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Conductor and composer. The first British-born career conductor. Born in Lon...
Opened in 1893, destroyed by the Luftwaffe on 10 May 1941. 2024: Described o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen's Hall
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the Briti...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Below the first floor bay window a large stone frieze is beginning to crumble but still reads: "Stepney & Bow Foundation Coborn Girls...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 - 1892, poet, lived here in 1880 and 1881. English Heritage
In a house in this Court Alexander Pope, poet, was born, 1688. The Corporation of the City of London
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
In our photo the plaque can be seen above the head of the passer-by on the right.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 1788 - 1855, Commander during the Crimean War, lived here. L.C.C.
