Sir Carol Reed film director lived here, 1948 - 1978.
This is the home where he died, 2 years earlier than the plaque would have it.
SW3, Kings Road, 213
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Carol Reed
Born Daisyfield, West Hill, Wandsworth. Film director, best known for The Thi...
Erected by Camden London Borough Council Peggy Duff, 1910 - 1981, first General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and lo...
Leslie Howard, 1893 - 1943, actor and film director, lived here. English Heritage
Jean Rhys, 1890 - 1979, writer lived here in flat 22, 1936 - 1938. English Heritage
The Royal Photographic Society plaque is on the left above the wheelie-bins. The BFI plaque is on the pillar on the right.
The "plaque" is actually a very dull modern notice inside the arcade so for our close-up picture we've focussed on the classical entrance...
This masonry fragment is probably part of a pediment and, to our eye, shows classical, not medieval, features. Perhaps the mansion had la...
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1895-1938. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Writer. Born in Erith, Kent. During WW2 he served in Burma where he spent eighteen hours adrift in the Indian Ocean after his ship was torpedoed. After the war he joined the Daily Express and becam...
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