The Grand Theatre and Opera House stood on this site 1896 - 1959.
Croydon's Heritage
CR0, High Street Croydon, 125
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House
The theatre was opened by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and it originally produced pl...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House
We think the "Croydon's Heritage" plaques must be erected by a section of Cro...
The business had just moved out when the building was destroyed by a WW2 bomb.
This was the site of the blacking factory where Dickens worked, aged 12 or 13, when his father was put in the Marshalsea prison for debt....
Referring to Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park, this very useful document says "After the war the buildings in the North East corner continued ...
Greater London Council Lord Lugard, 1858-1945, colonial administrator, lived here, 1912-1919.
Greater London Council George Meredith, O.M., 1828-1909, poet and novelist, lived here.
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