Erection date: 2/6/2003
David Devant, 1868 - 1941, magician, lived here in flat no. 1.
English Heritage
Site: David Devant (1 memorial)
NW3, Ornan Road, Ornan Court, Flat 1
Erection date: 2/6/2003
David Devant, 1868 - 1941, magician, lived here in flat no. 1.
English Heritage
NW3, Ornan Road, Ornan Court, Flat 1
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
David Devant
Born 4 Boston Terrace, Holloway, as David Wighton. His stage name was taken ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
David Devant
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, 1819 - 1891, civil engineer, lived here. Greater London Council
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Minister, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
In April 2011 we noticed that the building holding this plaque had changed so we re-photographed it.
Charles Lamb lived with his sister at Colebrooke Cottage from 1823 - 1827. Of this home he wrote "a cheerful dining room is studded all o...
Designed by architect T. Phillips Figgis.
In Satellite view it looks like there's a giant chess board in the back garden.
The designer of the building clearly had the 'citadel' concept in mind. Strangely, some of these foundation plaques have had their inscri...
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (rebranded 2019), formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (established 1994), distributes a share of National Lottery funding.
William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla, born 1862, died 1951.
This Georgian house was on The Green, Hampstead, in an area now occupied by the west-most part of the Hampstead Royal Free Hospital. It was Sir Rowland Hill's home for 30 years, during which time S...