Erection date: 22/8/2018
Site of the Red Bull Playhouse, c.1605 - 1665, 17th-century theatre.
London Borough of Islington
Seems they found so little information about this theatre that they filled the space on the plaque with tautology (specific dates and '17th century').
Unveiled by Alexander Armstrong, a descendent of Edward Somerset, fourth earl of Worcester, one-time patron of the Red Bull Theatre.
EC1, Hayward’s Place, 3
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Bull Theatre
The inn's owner converted the inn-yard into the theatre. Parliament banned th...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Red Bull Theatre
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
May 2016: The Islington Tribute reports that the plaque has been replaced, 27 May, with one giving the correct date of habitation (1944-7...
E. H. Shepard, 1879 – 1976, painter and illustrator lived here. English Heritage
This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed b...
We found three English Hedonist plaques in Whitecross Street in early 2013. Please let us know if there are more that we missed.
By sheer chance we discovered and photographed this plaque on 4 May 2022, the day after it was unveiled.
