{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...
King Henry VIII, 1491-1547. Close to this site stood the King’s Manor House. Part of its boundary wall adjoins Cheyne Studio.
The plaque was erected on the initiative of Sir Alfred Bossom MP, then president of the Anglo-Texan Society. It was unveiled by former Te...
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) physicist, lived here. LCC
Leopold Stokowski Society - London Leopold Anthony Stokowski, musician, 1882 - 1977, attended this school.
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