Erection date: 1975
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, 1875 - 1912, composer of the "Song of Hiawatha" lived here.
Greater London Council
This was the first plaque erected to a black person, in 1975.
SE25, Dagnall Park, 30
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Norwood
Composer. Born 15 Theobalds Road, of a mixed race couple, his father being a ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Norwood
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
The close up photo was taken some months (and some graffiti) after the other photo.
Sir Alec Guinness C.B.E., 1914 - 2000, actor, was born here. The Heritage Foundation
Somewhere we read about this house where the "surname is recorded in a rebus in the tiling of the front step". On our first visit, 2008, ...
Richard Tauber, 1891 - 1948, lyric tenor, lived here in flat 297, 1947 - 1948. English Heritage
Bermondsey Abbey The Cluniac (Benedictine) Priory of St Saviour at Bermondsey occupied ground between Bermondsey Street, Abbey Street and...
The 3 guardsmen are cast from captured Russian guns. The guns displayed at the rear are those used at the siege of Sebastopol. This was ...
A wealthy banker and art collector, who bought Aubrey House in 1873 for about £15,000. He was an important patron of Whistler. He died when he fell down the stairs of his country home Heathfield Ho...
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