Erection date: 1989
English Heritage
Joseph Grimaldi, 1778 - 1837, clown, lived here 1818 - 1828.
EC1, Exmouth Market, 56
Grimaldi lived at numerous addresses in the Clerkenwell area between 1794 and his death. This is the only one to have survived.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Grimaldi - EC1
Pantomime clown appearing at Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane and Covent Garden the...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Grimaldi - EC1
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Our photos was taken during a 2018 exhibition 'The Classical Now' during which these two muscle-men came over all modest. The 2 huge fig...
Alexis Soyer, 1810 - 1858, chef, author of cookbooks, inventor, lived here. City of Westminster
Somewhere we read about this house where the "surname is recorded in a rebus in the tiling of the front step". On our first visit, 2008, ...
The west, road, side of this plaque carries a relief, by Winifred Turner, showing a bearded blind man being guided by a child - see photo...
We don't normally collect memorials inside buildings but this one is rather touching. Austere and classical in style with none of the fo...
Mervyn Peake, 1911-1968, author and artist lived here, 1960-1968. English Heritage
Eliot moved here in 1957 after he married his second wife, his secretary Valerie, and died here 8 years later.
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
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