On this site stood the Pall Mall Restaurant where the Rugby Football Union was founded on the 26th January 1871.
Installed in or before 2012.
SW1, Cockspur Street, 1, Oceanic House
August 2022: we were informed that this plaque had gone, while the building was undergoing some sort of transformation. By September it was back. Our thanks to Lionel Wright for that information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rugby Football Union
Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rule...
The probable site, where, on May 24, 1738 John Wesley "felt his heart strangely warmed". This experience of grace was the beginning of Me...
Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958, pioneer of the study of molecular structures including DNA, lived here, 1951-1958. English Heritage
The lettering is above the right-most potted scrub. Incidentally, the photograph of the building catches a typical London sight - a van d...
The strange raised public space (hardly a garden) at the centre of this square was once a proper garden but then an electrical sub-statio...
Greater London Council The Silver Studio, established here in 1880. Arthur Silver, 1853 - 1896, Rex Silver, 1879 - 1965, Harry Silver, ...
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