Sir Edward Elgar lived in a house on this site, 1911 - 1921. Here he composed The Music Makers, Falstaff, The Spirit of England.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Netherhall Gardens, 42 - 44
The Elgars called this home Severn House, to remember the Worcestershire countryside. Elgar Memorial Trust have a photo and floor plan of the house and a suggestion that it was designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
Born in Broadheath, near Worcester. First moved to London on his marriage in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sir Edward Elgar - NW3
The photograph of the plaque is taken from Derek Sumeray's book 'Discovering ...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Charlie Chaplin, 1889 - 1978, lived here. Vauxhall Society
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A London Inheritance has old photos and more information about this church.
This plaque is on the first building in Mansion House Street but actually in St Mildred's Court.
Founded by Edith How-Martyn to "perpetuate the memory of the pioneers and outstanding events connected with women's emancipation and especially with the militant suffrage campaign, 1905-14, and thu...
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know what it was previously called. We can't discover the conne...
Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street,...
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