Erection date: 2020
Sir Cecil Beaton, 1904 - 1980, photographer and designer, lived and worked here 1940 - 1975.
English Heritage
Unveiled before 5 November 2020.
SW7, Pelham Place, 8
Amongst Beaton's sitters here were: John Osborne, Arthur Miller, Rose Macaulay, Mick Jagger, Patrick Lichfield, Benjamin Britten, Twiggy, Sir William and Lady Walton, Greta Garbo, the Queen Mother, and Gilbert and George.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cecil Beaton - SW7
Photographer, painter, interior designer and designer for stage and screen. B...
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Cecil Beaton - SW7
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Apart from the architect the names on this plaque are the same as those on the Diss Street plaque.
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
English Heritage Sir William Walton, 1902-1983, composer, lived here.
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
This game took place, on a Saturday, just 2 months after the FA had been formed.
Sculptor. The picture on the right is his work 'A Polo Player'.
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Architect. "George Hornblower was born in 1858, the son of Lewis Hornblower and younger brother of Frederic W Hornblower. He was educated at Birkenhead School and articled to his father and brother...
Wikipedia says "Every May, supporters of the Szmul Zygielbojm Memorial Committee gather at the memorial."
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
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