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...
This plaque surely should have been designed with the Clarendon typeface, just as Johnston's plaque used his.
Number 89 is the house with the white porch on the left of the photograph, and number 85 is the white house with the green door. Hidden ...
Martina Bergman Ősterberg 1849-1915, Pioneer of Physical Education for Women, lived and worked here.
{Left most double plaque - top:} LCC Lord Palmerston, 1784 - 1865, statesman, lived here. {Lower:} Tablet fixed - 1907 Premises rebuilt ...
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
An American who was born on 23 February 1926 in Baltimore City, Maryland, USA and who moved to the Isle of Wight. He died, aged 91 years, on 4 March 2017 and was cremated in West Palm Beach, Beach...
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Second Lieutenant Heriot Baker Roe was born on 10 October 1880 in Church Row, Ful...
The words come from a very dull modern plaque attached to the railings. London Uncovered gives: "A four-faced drum clock by Thwaites &am...
Writer. Born Richmal Crompton Lamburn in Manchester Road, Bury. She became a teacher, but had to give up when she contracted poliomyelitis, and was left without the use of her right leg. She was th...
Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536. Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horri...
