Erection date: 2007
Ira Aldridge, 1807 - 1867, Shakespearian actor, 'The African Roscius', lived here.
English Heritage
Quintus Roscius Gallus was a Roman actor c.100 BC.
SE19, Hamlet Road, 5
We can't answer the obvious question - did he ever play Hamlet?
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ira Aldridge
Actor. Born Ira Frederick Aldridge in New York City (his date of birth is app...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ira Aldridge
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
This is really an information board rather than a plaque and has a number of pictures with captions. We have transcribed the main body o...
This plaque was found packed away when the building was being cleared in 2013 prior to sale. Our photo of the plaque comes from Met Polic...
Other sources give varying opening and closing dates for the depot.
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