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.
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
{Beneath a representation of a Victoria Cross medal:} Commander Gordon Campbell, Royal Navy, 17th February 1917.
The small blue plaque is below the Palladian window to the left of our photo. Before 2011 the large blue plaque was where the red informa...
See J. K. Farnell for the story. Also the Telegraph article.
The Historic Southwark plaque is on the street frontage beside the less ornate entrance. The other, round, plaque is inside, high on the ...
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