Erection date: 2007
Sir Michael Costa, 1808 - 1884, conductor and orchestra reformer, lived here, 1857 - 1883.
English Heritage
SW1, Eccleston Square, 59-60, Wilton Court
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 Michael Costa
Conductor and composer. Born as Michaele Andrea Agniello Costa in Naples, Ita...
The plaque is on the right of the semi-circular covers of the ticket offices.
This rather attractive building, designed as a Police Station by Sydney Perks, was erected in 1926. The foundation stone is to the right ...
The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumably deliberate, and mean something. But what? We can find no...
Olive Schreiner, 1855 - 1920, author, lived here. London County Council
The first church on this site was built as a Catholic chapel to serve the Portuguese Embassy behind it, in Golden Square.
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...
The first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were named after the entrance on Great Scotland Yard. In about 1890 they moved from here to new premises by Norman Shaw on the Victoria Embankment,...
