{Beside a blue line drawing of the Globe Theatre:}
In thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker CBE, actor, director, producer, 1919 - 1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish.
SE1, Cathedral Street, Southwark Cathedral
The Wanamaker plaque is to the right of the Shakespeare memorial.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Created when the lease ran out for The Theatre in 1597 so the building was di...
Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Carved into the panel behind the figure are images of the original Globe Thea...
2016: We've replaced our 2012 dull and cold-looking photos with those our colleague, Alan Patient, took on his sunny visit. In the 19th ...
Gladstone served as Member of Parliament for Greenwich from 1868 to 1878.
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
The building to the east, Marconi House, has close connections to this site and we have recorded some of their joint history there.
The plaque would be more accurate were it placed at number 38 which was the house destroyed by the bomb. In 1950 numbers 35-38 were later...
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