Westminster City Council
Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764.
Honsway C&E Foundation
W1, Gerrard Street, 9
This is the only surviving purpose-built 18th century tavern, now in 2011, a Chinese deli.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
The (Literary) Club was founded in the Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street, by...
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Edward Ardizzone, 1900 - 1979, artist and illustrator, lived here, 1920 - 1972. English Heritage
The Lido Pavilion was built in 1930 to provide mixed bathing and sunbathing facilities. As the First Commissioner of Works, in the Depres...
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
Sir Henry Irving, 1838 - 1905, actor, lived here, 1872 - 1899. Greater London Council
On London found another drawing of the house, very similar to this one but with a different inscription: "Sacred to Milton". Perhaps the...
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