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.
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Sir Noel Coward - TW1
Actor, playwright, composer, film director, author, singer. Born Helmsdale, 5...
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Sir Noel Coward - TW1
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
“Carmen” were the equivalent of today’s delivery drivers.
There are 54 stones in total, but it is hard to believe that places like Herne Bay and Sittingbourne were ever business capitals.
English Heritage Thomas Gage, 1721 - 1787, Commander of British Forces in North American, lived here.
Mervyn Mansell, MBE. DSC. 1918-2009, player and Colts coaching manager, a lifelong contribution
Why, you ask, is this plaque attached to a low, free-standing, purpose-built pillar thing rather than to the building? Because the build...
Hereditary peer. Member of Parliament for Boston, Lincolnshire from 1661 to 1666. Succeeded to the titles of 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby and Hereditary Lord Great Chamberla...
In July 2018 the 5 VC plaques are laid into the esplanade in front of the war memorial, reading left to right: Parslow, Booth, Train, Say...
London Parks and Gardens Trust provides: In the 1850s No 16 High Street {Bromley} ... was bought by George Sparkes ...{who} renamed the house Neelgherries after the hills of Nilgiris (an alternativ...
Sculptor. Born Tromborn France, studied in Paris. Possibly of German ancestry. From Mapping Sculpture: Kremer came to England on 25 September 1859. As his first recorded activity is in Penkhull,...
The Tawney plaque is on the first floor, Wood on the second.
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