Plaque

Wong Kei Restaurant - Sarah Bernhardt

Inscription

Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.

Site: Wong Kei Restaurant (3 memorials)

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.

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Wong Kei Restaurant - Sarah Bernhardt

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Sarah Bernhardt

born in Paris in 1844. Oscar Wilde wrote Salome for her. Died 1923.

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Wong Kei Restaurant - Sarah Bernhardt

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Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving

Wong Kei Restaurant - Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving laid the coping stone of this building 1905.

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Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson

Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson

Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here. London...

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