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Oscar Wilde Society
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Oscar Wilde - Haymarket Theatre
Unveiled by Sir John Gielgud on the centenary of the first night of An Ideal ...
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George Borrow
Writer and traveller. Born George Henry Borrow, East Dereham, Norfolk. He travelled widely throughout Europe and Morocco and was also a great linguist. He caused a minor scandal, when, in a transla...
1 memorial
Helene Hanff
Born Philadelphia. Wrote 84 Charing Cross Road in 1970. Later made into a play and film. Died New York City. The apartment building where she lived at 305 E. 72nd Street has been named "Charing ...
1 memorial
Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
4 memorials
Oscar Wilde
Born in Dublin as Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest', 'Picture of Dorian Gray', etc. A flamboyant aesthete, he may have been Grossmith's model for the character Bunt...
Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre, France, Ireland
7 memorials
Joseph William Comyns Carr
Born 47 Devonshire Street. Author, gallery director and theatre manager. In 1877 he became co-director of the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, which promoted the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brother...
1 memorial
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Hay's Wharf
The land between Tooley Street and the Thames has been occupied by wharves and warehouses since the middle ages. Hay's Wharf originated as a Tooley Street brew-house of which Alexander Hay took own...
7 memorials
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Soldier and member of the Royal Family. Born at Sandringham, third son of George V. Married Alice. Parents of Richard. Governor-General of Australia 1944-7, returning to the UK in case he was n...
4 memorials
Queen Mary
SW1, Marlborough Road
Queen Mary died in 1953 at her home, Marlborough House, which is the building behind this plaque. The unveiling, by the Queen, took plac...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Bobby Moore
Footballer. Born Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore in Upney Hospital, Barking, Essex. Played for West Ham 1958-74. He had already played for the England youth and under-twenty-threes teams before bein...
7 memorials
Borough of Enfield
The northernmost borough of London. Formed by the amalgamation of the Municipal Boroughs of Southgate, Enfield and Edmonton.
9 memorials