Erection date: 1989
English Heritage
Joseph Grimaldi, 1778 - 1837, clown, lived here 1818 - 1828.
EC1, Exmouth Market, 56
Grimaldi lived at numerous addresses in the Clerkenwell area between 1794 and his death. This is the only one to have survived.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Grimaldi - EC1
Pantomime clown appearing at Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane and Covent Garden the...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Grimaldi - EC1
The alley is so narrow that it's difficult to photograph this interesting building. In our photo you can see the black plaque on the whit...
{Beneath the WRNS badge:} On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse GBE established the first headquarters of the WRNS. Women's R...
Dave Shepherd, Britain's acclaimed jazz clarinettist and bandleader, was born here on 7th February 1929. Waltham Forest Heritage
The royal significance of this site will be found by visiting the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
