Group    From 1889 

Grand Order of Water Rats

Show business charity with headquarters at The Water Rats Public House in the Gray's Inn Road.

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Grand Order of Water Rats

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Arthur Haynes

Arthur Haynes, 1914 - 1966, comedian and King Rat, lived here 1961 - 1966. Th...

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Charlie Chaplin - Methley Street

Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977, film maker and Water Rat, lived here, 1898-1899, ...

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David Lodge

David Lodge, 1921 - 2003, actor and past King Rat, lived here. The Heritage F...

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John Inman

Plaque unveiled by Wendy Richard, David Croft and Ron Lynch (his partner). It...

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Lord Delfont

Lord Delfont of Stepney, 1909 - 1994, impresario and Companion Water Rat. Com...

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Roxy Club

Roxy Club

Nightclub in which the British punk music scene flourished. Groups such as The Stranglers, The Buzzcocks and Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Damned, Generation X, The Slits, Adam & th...

Place, Music / songs

1 memorial
E. M. Palser

E. M. Palser

Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces, Music / songs

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Helen Carte

Helen Carte

Born Wigtown, Scotland as Susan Helen Couper Black. Later changed "Black" to "Lenoir", apparently the family's original name in 17th century France. Starting as secretary to Richard D'Oyly Carte s...

Person, Commerce, Music / songs, Theatre, Scotland

1 memorial
Railway Hotel, Harrow

Railway Hotel, Harrow

A three-storey brick Victorian pub.  In the 1950s it was used as a jazz club and by February 1964 an R&B club (the Bluesday) was operating, where played: Long John Baldry, the Bo Street Runners...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Music / songs

1 memorial
Randolph Baptiste

Randolph Baptiste

Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Co-founder of the Ebony Steelband in the late 1960s and founder of the Stardust Mas and Pan Band in 1983. Also a maker of carnival costumes. Deceas...

Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Music / songs

1 memorial