Westminster City Council
Savoy Theatre
Opened in 1881, the Savoy Theatre was the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity.
Savoy Theatre
WC2, Carting Lane, Savoy Theatre
Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Savoy Theatre
The Savoy Theatre opened in 1881. Despite this date it is a delightful exampl...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Savoy Theatre
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
This was a good, well-designed, commemorative stone. But then (we surmise) one of the committee people realised that their efforts had ...
The Listing entry gives: "Artists' studios, now flats. 1885-6 with 1891 Annexe. John C P Higgs and Frank Rudkin, architects. Red Brick wi...
Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...
We counted 5 memorials on the outside of this building: the relief showing Tyburn martyrs at attic level; the Gunne plaque at eye level o...
Enrique Manuel Aguirre was born on 25 May 1903 in Anerley, Kent (now Greater London), the youngest of the three children of Enrique Blas Aguirre (1866-1926) and Henrietta Emma Aguirre née Rogers (1...
Edgar Allan Poe's maternal grandparents performed as actors at this theatre, which explains the Society's involvement in this plaque.
Children's comic strip character. Created by the artist Mary Tourtel. In 1935, when her eyesight started failing the stories and illustrations were taken over by Alfred Bestall. An annual of Rupert...
Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. From the age of 14 she determined to meet Eliot and when she left school she told her headmistress tht she wanted to become...
Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...
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