The site of this building forms part of what was once the precinct of the Priory of S. John-the-Baptist, Holywell. Within a few yards stood, from 1577 to 1598, the first London building specially devoted to the performance of plays and known as 'The Theatre'.
EC2, Curtain Road, 86-90
February 2013: planning permission was granted to build a theatre on this site.
2023: Now the plans are for housing and a Shakespeare Museum.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
The Theatre
The site of The Theatre is the tall building to the left in the picture. Ofte...
Founded before 1127. Augustinian. Disbanded y Henry VIII c. 1540.
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
The Theatre
We chickened out of deciding where to put the apostrophe in 'Mothers'.
A lovely and unusual plaque - we cannot discover when, nor by whom, it was erected.
The railway line was high above street level. The ramp provided a way of getting the railway carriages up to the tracks, and also somewhe...
John Heartfield, 1891 - 1968, master of political photomontage, lived here, 1938 - 1943. English Heritage
Jim Connell, 1852 - 1929, Irish, socialist and author of 'The Red Flag' lived here, 1915 - 1929. Lewisham The Labour Party
Sculptor. She has created group sculptures for the most recent Olympics in Beijing, London and Rio de Janiero.
