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...
This house was listed in the 2017 Open House event but disappointingly, by 2019, this link has died. We've taken this opportunity to gat...
In our photo the plaque can be seen above the head of the passer-by on the right.
We bet this corner of London looked more interesting in 1500.
The plaque refers to the memorial being 'refurbished'. Diamond Geezer explains that previously there was a cross painted on one of the pi...
English Heritage Madame Marie Tussaud, 1761 - 1850, artist in wax, lived here, 1838 - 1839.
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