Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.
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 - Sarah Bernhardt
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Sarah Bernhardt
Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here. London...
The two S's probably indicate 'St Stephen's'.
Sources give no. 20 as her address so we guess the street has been renumbered since then.
We don't understand the "L.L.A.D." on the plaque - perhaps the erecting organisation? Please let us know if you have an explanation.
Should we collect this type of memorial? Too dull? Duller than this one: North South route in Haringey? In a world where The Boring Talks...
This modern plaque is at the bottom of the sloping path on the left. 2019: The plaque at the other, east, end of this tunnel has been re...
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