Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996.
Sir Alec Guinness in recognition of his unique contribution to British cinema.
In association with the British Film Institute.
WC2, Upper St Martin's Lane, Guild House
The building is offices for Equity, the actor's union.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Alec Guinness - WC2
Actor. Born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Alec Guinness - WC2
In 1996 the BFI erected 126 plaques across Britain to commemorate the centena...
The weather vane depicts a grid-iron, the instrument used for the torture which led to the martyrdom of St Lawrence. The shaft supportin...
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experienced with a cement trowel and stone hammer, while the then Pr...
"Act 5 and 6 Will. IV.Cap.82" refers to a legal instrument created during the reign of King William IV. Where else but the Temple would ...
Charlotte Mew, 1869 - 1928, poet, lived here, 1869 - 1890. Marchmont Association
Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO, GCStJ. Senior Army officer. Served in the Second Boer War and in WW1, on the Western fro...
The Queen visited to view the plaque on 24 February 2010. It is very well-presented; on each of our two visits the plants were fresh and...
Mathematician and computer pioneer. Born 13 Piccadilly Terrace, daughter of Lord Byron. Brought up by her mother and directed towards science rather than the arts, in fear that otherwise she might ...
The plaque is above the dark van on the left of our photo.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
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