Sir Noel Coward, 1899 - 1973, actor, playwright and songwriter, born here.
English Heritage
TW1, Waldegrave Road, 131
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says Coward was born at number 5. This house is the end house in a terrace of 7 so we can't see how it could ever have been numbered 5. But it's an EH plaque so we trust they have identified the right house.
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Sir Noel Coward - TW1
Actor, playwright, composer, film director, author, singer. Born Helmsdale, 5...
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Sir Noel Coward - TW1
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
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This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
Greater London Council Prince Metternich, 1773 - 1859, Austrian statesman, lived here in 1848.
The four plaques are located as follows: To the left of the entrance - 1937 foundation,To the right of the entrance - opened 1940 (can be...
In 1850 she donated some funds to the Emery Hill almshouses in memory of her late husband, James Chadwick: £1500 3 per cent annuities, the interest thereof to be divided amongst the poor alms-peopl...
First name was Thomas but he did not use it. The first Provost of University College London, 1904–1929. Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1928 to 1930.
Soldier. Born in Forest Hill, London. On 2nd May, 1915 near Ypres, the enemy was advancing behind a wave of poison gas. In spite of being almost overcome by the fumes, he turned his machine-gun aga...
Remond lived at 6 Grenville Street, which would have been opposite this modern building, in a Georgian terrace - and we believe there is ...
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