Sir Noel Coward, 1899 - 1973, actor, playwright and songwriter, born here.
English Heritage
TW1, Waldegrave Road, 131
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says Coward was born at number 5. This house is the end house in a terrace of 7 so we can't see how it could ever have been numbered 5. But it's an EH plaque so we trust they have identified the right house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Noel Coward - TW1
Actor, playwright, composer, film director, author, singer. Born Helmsdale, 5...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Noel Coward - TW1
English Heritage Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970 Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935 writers and reformers, lived here.
In 2022 Philip Broke told us that the plaque on this house is blue not purple. We revisited and we have added our photo here. The blue pl...
Collingham Garden The use of this ground for the welfare of children for all time has been bequeathed under the will of John Cyril Lees ...
2020: This plaque is no longer here so we've marked it as Lost.
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that this bay was ready and waiting. It took some effort, and a...
