{Beside a blue line drawing of the Globe Theatre:}
In thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker CBE, actor, director, producer, 1919 - 1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish.
SE1, Cathedral Street, Southwark Cathedral
The Wanamaker plaque is to the right of the Shakespeare memorial.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Created when the lease ran out for The Theatre in 1597 so the building was di...
Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Carved into the panel behind the figure are images of the original Globe Thea...
Commentary: No, we can't explain the purple bucket, but we do believe it to be a temporary embellishment.
Here lived Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, from 1839 - 1873.
On this site the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor was founded on 27th April 1908. 31 Essex Street.
The plaque has left room for one more re-roofing, due, on this 64 year maintenance cycle, in 2026.
Hertha Ayrton, 1854 - 1923, physicist, lived here, 1903 - 1923. English Heritage
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