Erection date: 2013
On this site stood the Gaiety Theatre, built in 1903 for impresario George Edwardes. The theatre opened with the performance of 'The Orchid' and until it was closed in 1939 remained the home of musical comedy and one of London's most famous playhouses.
WC2, Strand, Silken Hotel
The building to the east, Marconi House, has close connections to this site and we have recorded some of their joint history there.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gaiety Theatre
Theatre manager. Born Lincolnshire. His cousins were Irish theatre managers ...
Before the Aldwych development in 1906 the street pattern was very different...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Gaiety Theatre
Gaiety Theatre On this site until 1957 stood the re-sited Gaiety Theatre whic...
Walpole Park Opened for the use of the public, 1st May 1901 by the Rt. Hon. Lord George Hamilton, MP for the Ealing Division of Middlesex...
The plaque is in the entrance porch of the building.
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. Bedford Park Society
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the Crimean War, lived in a house on this site. The Portman Estate
This small garden is well-hidden. It's to the east of the tower Sivill House, that's the building in the background of our photo. We we...
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