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...
The plaques are at the entrance to the ticket hall.
Formerly The (Regent Street) Polytechnic. The plaque for the first cinema is inside the hall and is not normally accessible except when t...
The plaque is in the arcade to the right of our picture. The Museum of London have a map that shows the location of this and other archa...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 - 1863, novelist, lived here.
