Originally founded by Ninette de Valois as the Academy of Choreographic Art. Its students are chosen purely for their dancing talent and not for any academic ability. Famous dancers and choreographers from the school include Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Beryl Grey, Sir Kenneth MacMillan and Darcey Bussell.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Royal Ballet School
{Beneath the crest of the Royal Ballet School:} The Bridge of Aspiration, the...
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
Established by William Hamley as 'Noah's Ark' at 231 High Holborn. Branch at 200 Regent Street opened in 1881. The original shop was destroyed by fire in 1901 and moved down the road to 86-87 High ...
This school was founded in what is now Raine Street by Henry Raine (1679 - 1738) in 1719, though the street was then known as Fawdon Lane, Charles Street. The school provided an education for local...
From University of Southampton: "Based in a disused hostel on 125 Cannon Street Road, the Oxford and St George’s Club began in 1914 with a membership of 25 boys. The Club got its name from Basil’s ...
Royal Air Force apprentices and boy entrants, 1920 - 1993.
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