Erection date: 28/2/1980
Royalty Mansions was built in 1908 as flats with workrooms for tailors. It was purchased for improvement by the Soho Housing Association in 1978 and after extensive renovation work was opened by HRH the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh on 28 February 1980.
Architects:
1908 Harold A Woodington
1978 Peter Mishcon and Associates.
W1, Meard Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royalty Mansions
Built in 1908 as flats with workrooms for tailors. It was purchased for impro...
Harold Arthur Woodington was born in 1866, the seventh of the nine children o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Royalty Mansions
Born at the villa 'Mon Repos', the summer retreat of the Greek royal family, ...
At first glance this is just a dull modern building but look closer and you can see some of the features of the original Gothic 1890 stru...
In 1958 this building opened as Herbert Morrison House, 195, Walworth Road - the Labour Party headquarters until the 1990s. At some poin...
A few years later, in 1854, Lewis Cubitt also designed the much more traditional Great Northern Hotel, a bit of which you can see on the ...
2025: The Standard reported on this flat being for sale, saying that the 2-bedroom ground floor flat was Lawrence's first residence in Lo...
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
George du Maurier lived here, 1874 to 1895.
Dr Rizal lodged here in 1888 with the Beckett family on a weekly rent of £2. On 19 June 2011, to celebrate Rizal's 150th birth anniversar...
Abele Giandolini, "Monsieur Abel", opened The Ivy as a cafe on this site in 1917. On-line information about Giandolini is hard to come by. Bonhams sold an Epstein head, "Third Portrait of Jackie (...
Tory politician. Born at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Overcame his early boisterous jollity and three times became Prime Minister, each time a coalition caretaker between the giants: Peel and Gladsto...
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