On this site stood the Pall Mall Restaurant where the Rugby Football Union was founded on the 26th January 1871.
Installed in or before 2012.
SW1, Cockspur Street, 1, Oceanic House
August 2022: we were informed that this plaque had gone, while the building was undergoing some sort of transformation. By September it was back. Our thanks to Lionel Wright for that information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rugby Football Union
Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rule...
Heath's upbringing is described as borderline between the working and middle classes.
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on the building but on one of those easel things often used fo...
Sir John Betjeman, 1906 - 1984, poet, lived here, 1908 - 1917. English Heritage
Hugh Price Hughes, 1847 - 1902, Methodist preacher lived and died here. English Heritage
Built as a hospital and old people’s home. The facade is in the style of an early 18th century house but it was built 1912-13, by Castell...
