Erection date: 16/11/2006
City of Westminster
Rosa Lewis, 1867 - 1952, chef de cuisine and hotelier, dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street', ruled the Cavendish Hotel in a building on this site.
SW1, Jermyn Street, 81, The Cavendish Hotel
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rosa Lewis
There is evidence of a 'Miller's Hotel' on the site in the early 1800s which ...
BBC television series, loosely based on the career of Rosa Lewis. It starred ...
Hotelier. Born Rosa Ovenden at Leyton, Essex. She started her working life as...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rosa Lewis
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
At the unveiling musketeers from the Rainsborough Regiment of the Sealed Knot fired a volley to mark the occasion.
They lived here 1922 - 1970 and this is where Laura died.
Believed to be the first war memorial erected on a public highway. At first sight just a simple stone cross on a plinth, but the whole ba...
Originally the 1892 Passmore Edwards Library this building is now part of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, based in the building next door wi...
Born William Purdie Treloar at 7 Holland Street, Blackfriars. Joined his father's business Treloar's Carpet Co. Also head of a firm of haberdashers, Treloar and Sons. Lord Mayor of London 1906-7....
The quotation comes from one of the apocrypha, the Wisdom of Solomon, 3.2. The south face of this monument fronts the road and the insc...
The Prince of Wales public house was at 294 Clapham Road on the corner of Paradise Road from at least 1856. On Sunday 13th October 1940 a WW2 bomb destroyed the front section of the pub killing 32 ...
Unveiled by George VI and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Everyone who was a...
