Erection date: 1995
Lord Reith, 1889 - 1971, first Director-General of the BBC, lived here, 1924 - 1930.
English Heritage
SW1, Barton Street, 6
The plaque is located on the side of the building in Cowley Street.
2024: The Daily Mail reports that the house is for sale, with lots of photos.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lord Reith - SW1
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the Briti...
First Director-General of the BBC. Born Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. At 6' 6"...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Lord Reith - SW1
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
This plaque is on the low boundary wall, facing the pavement. The railings, proudly announced on the plaque, are no more, presumably remo...
Difficult to find even if you know it's there - took us three visits. This plaque does not face the road, but west, and hides behind a br...
William Reeve, 1757 - 1815, composer, Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells theatres, lived and died in a house on this site. Marchmont Associ...
See Ellen and William Craft - blue plaque for the other plaque in this road.
Plaque unveiled by Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellan.
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