Erection date: 11/8/2013
The British Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London, was given on 21 March 1825 in the Argyll Rooms Concert Hall on this site.
Royal Philharmonic Society
City of Westminster
W1, Regent Street, 252, NatWest Bank
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as par...
Composer. Born (we only have his baptism date) in Bonn (now Germany). His nin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
Created as the Philharmonic Society of London, it had an orchestra which init...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
These two plaques are next door to each other and were unveiled on the same day. We attended the event, and since this street is becoming...
James Henry Greathead, 1844 - 1896, railway and tunnellng engineer, lived here 1885 - 1889. English Heritage
City of Westminster The Queen's Hall, 1893 - 1941, site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded the promenade con...
At Messrs. Hatchard's in a house on this site The Royal Horticultural Society was founded on the 7th March 1804.
We were surprised to see a memorial plaque attached to this piece of street furniture, a way-finding finger-post. Is this the only one? O...
Darth Vader and his Storm Troopers were present at the unveiling.
The original buildings of Dulwich College, founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn as a school and almshouses. The Almshouses continue in use b...
Television and film producer. Born Malcolm Gordon Craddock, London. Began making films while at university. Produced TV commercials for 14 years. Co-founder of Picture Palace, the television produc...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Builder and local politician. Born Stratford to a father with the same name and his wife Mary. From London Wikia: A member of the Rotherhithe Vestry, at the first election to the London County Coun...
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