The Montagu Pyke
This is the site of the former 'Marquee Club' which closed in 1995, originally built as a cinema in 1911 by Montagu Pyke, his 16th and final cinema.
Charing Cross Road, London
WC2, Charing Cross Road, The Montagu Pyke pub, 105-107
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Montagu Pyke and The Marquee
Our 1960 picture comes from Warsaw1948 which has a wonderful collection of ol...
In 1908 Pyke converted two shops at 164-166 Edgware Road into a cinema. This ...
First opened on 19 April 1958 at 165 Oxford Street and then in 1964 moved to ...
Harold Bride 1890 - 1956, wireless operator aboard RMS Titanic lived here, 1903 - 1922. The London Borough of Bromley.
Unveiled in its new location on 19 April 2023, the same day that a plaque at the other end of Olympic Way was unveiled.
The plaque dates the campaign from 1941, but other sources give it as 1942. The quotation is credited to John Maxwell Edmonds.
No erection date is given but we've guessed that the work was done and the plaque erected in time for the Jubilee in 1977.
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