Erection date: /10/2003
English Heritage
William Roberts, 1895 - 1980, artist, lived, worked and died here, 1946 - 1980.
Unveiled by Alan Bennett in 2003. Bennett, an early member of the William Roberts Society, has lived in the area a long time and once accidentally bumped into Roberts prompting the artist to "let forth a volley of abuse".
NW1, St Marks Crescent, 14
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Roberts
Artist. Founder member of the short-lived British Vorticist group and a WW1...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Roberts
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born Leeds. First popular succes...
Unveiled by A. N. Wilson, an historian educated at Rugby, as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations.
The lettering on this inscribed stone is delightful: in "THE" the "H" is just a horizontal line joining the "T" to the "E", the two "N"s ...
The British Pathe commentator says the plaque will eventually be sent to Russia. Some people are carrying a large banner reading 'Quiet N...
The same plaque appears on each of the guardrooms.
The Historic Southwark plaque is on the street frontage beside the less ornate entrance. The other, round, plaque is inside, high on the ...
L.C.C. 1911 Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), musical composer, lived here.
Irish nationalist and politician. Born Woodfield, County Cork. He moved to London in 1906 with his sister, spending over nine years there. An activist in the Sinn Féin movement, he was imprisoned i...
John McCormack, 1884 - 1945, lyric tenor, lived here, 1908 - 1913. English Heritage
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1896-1941. Officer in the Order of St John.
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Unveiled by Rolan Bolan, Marc's son, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Bolan's death. Paid for personally by Fee Warner.
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