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...
The memorial is in the mayor's parlour.
Bakerloo Line Centenary of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, 1906 - 2006
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The house in which Banks etc lived had had a blue plaque attached in 1911. When it was demolished and replaced in 1938 with this buildin...
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
Son of John Bacon the elder. He trained as a sculptor and carried on his father's business.
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
Chairman of the City Lands Committee of the Corporation of London in July 1896. We think Matthew Wallace may be the same man but can't prove it.
Astronomer. mathematician and physicist. Born Arthur Stanley Eddington in Kendal, Westmorland. He is famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity, and wrote a number of articles explaini...
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