Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here.
London County Council
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 - Willy Clarkson
Costumier and wigmaker. He took over his father's business in 1878, and becam...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson
Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.
Plaque unveiled by Ray Mears.
The London Compendium gives 1950 as the year in which Aylward opened her shop, while Wikipedia reckons "antiques dealers arrived in the l...
Sir Charles Santley (1834 - 1922) singer, lived and died here. L.C.C.
This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed b...
L.C.C. James Anthony Froude. (1818-1894), historian and man of letters lived here.
