Sir Henry Irving laid the coping stone of this building 1905.
W1, Wardour Street, 41
The house was designed and built for Clarkson's theatrical costume shop. His celebrated theatrical clients laid the foundation and coping stones, symbolically the first and last stones in the construction of a house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving
Actor-manager. Born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset. Brought up in near pover...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving
Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.
Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here. London...
To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-maintained grave-stone, that reads: "George Fox, born 7th Mo....
In our picture the Jubilee Market Traders plaque can be seen on the back wall of the arcade. In front of it, the Queen's stone plaque is...
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
This memorial is here to explain the odd name of the dock. However the dock is named after the church which was called "St Mary over the ...
These two memorials are on either side of the entrance to Walnut Road.
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveili...
Flight Lieutenant Edward Gordon Brettell DFC was born on 19 March 1915, the eldest of the three children of Vivian Brettell (1882-1949) and Eileen Isabella Brettell née Carroll (1887-1979). His bir...
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