W. Friese-Greene
SW3, King’s Road, 208, Chelsea Cinema
Friese-Greene’s studio and laboratory were located on this site. The current building was originally the Gaumont Palace cinema, built in1934. It closed in 1972. The foyer and stalls became the current Habitat store and the small cinema next door was created in the balcony area.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Friese-Greene
Photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography. Born Bristol as William...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Friese-Greene
Sculptor. Born Forest Gate. His cousin was a cinema architect which probabl...
Although we have not been able to find this plaque we have not marked it as 'lost', believing it to be on some part of the site not avail...
Are we proud of spotting this small, dark plaque? You bet we are!
London Borough of Camden Lord Pitt of Hampstead, 1913 - 1994, physician and civil rights campaigner, worked here, 1950 - 84.
Site of St. Benet Gracechurch, demolished 1876. The Corporation of the City of London
The left-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.