Erection date: 16/11/2006
City of Westminster
Rosa Lewis, 1867 - 1952, chef de cuisine and hotelier, dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street', ruled the Cavendish Hotel in a building on this site.
SW1, Jermyn Street, 81, The Cavendish Hotel
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rosa Lewis
There is evidence of a 'Miller's Hotel' on the site in the early 1800s which ...
BBC television series, loosely based on the career of Rosa Lewis. It starred ...
Hotelier. Born Rosa Ovenden at Leyton, Essex. She started her working life as...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rosa Lewis
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Scipio Africanus Mussabini, 1867 - 1927, athletics coach, lived here. English Heritage
The dates on the plaque indicate the anticipated period of construction, but in the event the theatre did not open until November 1924.
Historian Sir David Cannadine, and Frances Spalding, Fry's biographer, were present at the unveiling.
Chosen as the featured memorial in December 2004, for lots of reasons. Firstly, it commemorates, amongst others, the Beatles, which shows...
'Blow-up' bridge At 3am on 2 October 1874, the boat 'Tilbury', carrying gunpowder to a quarry in the Midlands, exploded, demolishing the ...
The memorial stone slab forms part of the floor of this crucifixion shrine. The eaves bear the date "2000" and the floor does not seem...
Treasurer of the Pulford Street Site Committee. This is possibly Sir John Humphrey Davidson (1876–1954), who was a military man until 1922 when he left the army and then became MP in Fareham, Ken...
Our colleague Alan Patient took a photo of this plaque in 2008 and tells us it was in excellent condtion. 9 years later. on our visit, th...
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