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 brick pier built to display these rescued plaques is behind the railings, at the right of our photo. Until we did the research we as...
The official Norway site provides useful background information for this plaque. See also the Norwegian gratitude stone.
This plaque is attached to a stone hidden in the bushes. But helpfully the man in the red t-shirt and red socks is marking its location ...
Tommy Handley, 1892 - 1949, radio comedian, lived here. Greater London Council
The Evening Standard, 14 October 2019 (link now behind a paywall): "Could a Fleabag Walking Tour be in the offing? Bold café on York Rise...
Margery Allingham, 1904 - 1966, writer of crime fiction and creator of Albert Campion, lived here, 1916 - 1926. City of Westminster
This is a classy plaque, very of its time. From Fanny Cornforth we learn that the text "death has...." is written by Henry Wilson and is...
Sculptor. We can't find evidence that this Brian Yale is the sculptor who died on 12 October 2009.
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