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...
D'Oyly Carte lived at 71 Russell Square, a residence behind the houses fronting onto Russell Square, accessed from Guilford Street. It ha...
The Arnold Bennett Society Arnold Bennett, author, 1867 - 1931, lived, worked and died here, 1930 -1931.
Designed by architects Gunton and Gunton and opened in 1923. These alsmhouses consist of a row of six cottages with a pair of semi-detach...
The other One Tun pub is in Goodge Street.
This is a foundation stone for the building.
The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the first not to discriminate on race, class or religion, and the first to accept women on equal terms. Jeremy Bentham was no...
Born Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Germany, as Albert Francis Augustus Charles Emanuel. Married his first cousin, Victoria, in 1840. President of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Generally in...
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