Erection date: 30/11/2015
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. OM, 1860 - 1937, novelist, dramatist and creator of 'Peter Pan', lived in a house on this site, 1885 - 1888.
Marchmont Association
WC1, Grenville Street, 8, Downing Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
J.M. Barrie - WC1
The Marchmont Association thoroughly research their plaques and they found so...
Playwright and novelist. Born Kirriemuir, Scotland. Moved to London, Bloomsbu...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
J.M. Barrie - WC1
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
Tide gauge house It was vital for the correct operation of the lock that the men on duty knew the exact state of the tide. This building ...
Annie Besant, 1847 - 1933, social reformer, lived here in 1874. London County Council
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of information about Beaumont to its left.
In 1995 the tower was moved slightly from its original location to accommodate road layout changes. A drawing of 1900 shows it in its ori...
This nursery was set up and funded by the Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1955 for the use of nursing mothers ...
Actor, comedian and singer. Born Harry Donald Secombe in St Thomas, Swansea where he grew up. In WW2Â he served in the Royal Artillery, and whilst in North Africa he first met Spike Milligan. After ...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio, Africa, Wales
Father of Capt. Francis W. Moore, M.C. whose name appears on the memorial erected by his father. If Moore Snr. really did the carving on the monument then he was a talented sculptor and we are surp...
Successful seal engraver. 1796 in business with John Barnes. 1800 the business moved to 7 Coventry Street and shortly after Halfhide was in business on his own. His son, also George, joined the bus...
Actor and playwright. Probably born in County Donegal, Ireland in about 1699. Lived in Bow Street.. Died at home in Tavistock Row.
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...
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