Erection date: 4/12/2019
In August 1898 Fred Gaisberg and The Gramophone Company opened Europe's first disc recording studio on this site.
Westminster City Council
James Hall & EMI Archive Trust
Queen's drummer Roger Taylor unveiled the plaque.
WC2, Maiden Lane, Fire and Stone, 31
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for the photos.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Europe's first disc recording studio
In 1898 The Gramophone Company moved into the building with the plaque and st...
American musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Europe's first disc recording studio
From their website: "The EMI Archive Trust was established in 1996. The EMI G...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Writer and journalist. James Hall started the campaign to commemorate the fir...
Sir Harry Vane, statesman, lived here. Born 1612. Beheaded 1662. {Almost hidden in the decorative border:} Erected by the Society of Arts
The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spitalfields. We believe the design shows a pomegranate in the Ja...
The Guardian archives hold their article about this plaque being erected, and it contains some good saucy jokes, e.g. Judge: "You are pre...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 - 1945, theologian and pastor, lived here, 1933 - 1935. Borough of Lewisham Presented by The International Bonh...
Gairloch House This stone was laid on 29th April 1964 by Stanley G. Shaw whose work for the St. Pancras Housing Society from 1929 to 1958...
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