Plaque

Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving

Wong Kei Restaurant Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving
Inscription

Sir Henry Irving laid the coping stone of this building 1905.

Site: Wong Kei Restaurant (3 memorials)

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

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Sir Henry Irving

Actor-manager. Born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset. Brought up in near pover...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving

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Wong Kei Restaurant - Sarah Bernhardt

Wong Kei Restaurant - Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.

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Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson

Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson

Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here. London...

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