Sir Henry Irving laid the coping stone of this building 1905.
W1, Wardour Street, 41
The house was designed and built for Clarkson's theatrical costume shop. His celebrated theatrical clients laid the foundation and coping stones, symbolically the first and last stones in the construction of a house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving
Actor-manager. Born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset. Brought up in near pover...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving
Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.
Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here. London...
The plaque refers to the memorial being 'refurbished'. Diamond Geezer explains that previously there was a cross painted on one of the pi...
This brass plaque on the pavement had become badly worn and a new one was erected on a nearby wall.
Note The proper title of each Inn is 'The Honourable Society of . . . .',
Unveiled by Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath, two of the 'Three Men in a Boat' in the recent popular TV series. Also present: representa...
In 2018 a high fence removed the Pavlova plaque from view. But at about the time the Bowman plaque was erected in 2019 the height of the ...
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