Conductor Laureate, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, C. H., 1899 - 1970, was born here.
Site: Sir John Barbirolli - Southampton Row (1 memorial)
WC1, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury Park Hotel
Conductor Laureate, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, C. H., 1899 - 1970, was born here.
WC1, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury Park Hotel
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir John Barbirolli - Southampton Row
Conductor Laureate, Hallé Orchestra, and cellist. Born Southampton Row, as G...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir John Barbirolli - Southampton Row
Founded as a registered charity by Ivan Saxton who had previously founded the...
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
A London Inheritance has a 1947, or thereabouts, photo of "London's earliest inscribed monument" as it was then, in two sections incorpor...
{Round plaque:} Upon this site formerly stood the Palace of Richmond, built by Henry VII in 1501. A royal residence first occupied this s...
Seems likely that the F. J. Smith is the same architect as the one who built Caxton Hall with William Lee. Andrew Behan has researched s...
This is the foundation stone for the building.
We were alerted to the existence of this tree, and its vandalisation, in June 2016, by an article in Marchmont News, from where comes the...
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