Sir Edward Elgar lived in a house on this site, 1911 - 1921. Here he composed The Music Makers, Falstaff, The Spirit of England.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Netherhall Gardens, 42 - 44
The Elgars called this home Severn House, to remember the Worcestershire countryside. Elgar Memorial Trust have a photo and floor plan of the house and a suggestion that it was designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
Born in Broadheath, near Worcester. First moved to London on his marriage in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
The photograph of the plaque is taken from Derek Sumeray's book 'Discovering ...
Janet Johnson (1858 - 1955) pioneer welfare worker. Lived at 39 Redcross Way. She became the first woman Guardian of the Poor in Southwar...
This carved memorial shows 3 drowning men reaching up to the cross from the waves/shroud on which is inscribed the text. It was erected 2...
Burt Kwouk OBE, 1930 - 2016, Chinese actor, lived here 1990 - 2016. The Heritage Foundation
Charles and his wife Anna came to London and lived at first 15 and then 39A Marchmont Street so that he could live close while he read hi...
Unveiled by Griff Rhys Jones, who claims not to actually be Welsh despite his name and having been born there.
Charity. Founded to use the power of the Queen's Park Rangers football club to forge connections with its community.
John Samuel Purcell was born on 31 May 1839 in Ireland, a son of Dr John Francis Powell who was a Physician in Ordinary to successive Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland and later an Irish Poor Law Commiss...
Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Pioneering plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II, treating badly burnt aircrew. Appointed C.B.E. in 1944. Knighted 1947. Helped found ...
James Henry Dart was born on 10 July 1878 in Torquay, Devon, the eldest of the five children of James Dart (1857-1836) and Georgina Emma Dart née Westaway (1857-1905). His birth was registered in t...
Henry Watson Fowler, 1858 - 1933, grammarian and lexicographer, lived here 1900 - 1903. English Heritage
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