W. Friese-Greene
SW3, King’s Road, 208, Chelsea Cinema
Friese-Greene’s studio and laboratory were located on this site. The current building was originally the Gaumont Palace cinema, built in1934. It closed in 1972. The foyer and stalls became the current Habitat store and the small cinema next door was created in the balcony area.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Friese-Greene
Photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography. Born Bristol as William...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Friese-Greene
Sculptor. Born Forest Gate. His cousin was a cinema architect which probabl...
Rudy Narayan, 1938 - 1998, barrister, civil rights activist, community champion and "voice for the voiceless", practised law here 1987 - ...
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LCC In a house on this site lived from 1854 - 1875, Sir Charles Lyell, geologist and from 1876 - 1882, W.E. Gladstone, statesman.
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The text we have transcribed is off a very dull plaque on this wall near the ground. The photograph shows the name plaque, high on the bu...
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