City of Westminster plaques
This organisation generally erects green plaques
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/leisureandculture/greenplaques/
Westminster is rich in its heritage of buildings and the people who have lived and worked here. Launched in 1991, The Green Plaque Scheme draws attention to particular buildings in Westminster associated with people of renown who have made lasting contributions to society.
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 | Queen's Hall, Henry Wood, and The Promenade Concerts green plaque in London | The Queen's Hall 1893-1941. Site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded The Promenade Concerts in 1895. The Queen's Hall was destroyed in The Blitz of 1941. |
 | Morell Mackenzie green plaque in London | Sir Morell Mackenzie 1837-1892 founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat in a building on this site in 1865 |
 | John Stephen green plaque in London | John Stephen 1934-2004 founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960's |
 | Jessie Matthews green plaque in London | Jessie Matthews OBE 1907-1981 musical comedy star of stage and films was born in this house |
 | Voltaire green plaque in London | Voltaire 1694-1778 French philosopher and satirist lodged in a house on this site 1727-1728 |
 | Keith Moon blue plaque in London | Keith Moon (1946-1978) legendary rock drummer with 'The Who' performed here at the site of the Marquee Club in the 1960s |
 | Jeremy Bentham green plaque in London | Jeremy Bentham philosopher and reformer 1748-1832 lived in a house on this site |
 | W. T. Stead green plaque in London | W. T. Stead 1849-1912 journalist and reformer of great renown lived here 1904-1912 |
 | The 2i's Coffee Bar green plaque in London | Site of The 2i's Coffee Bar (1956-1970) birthplace of British Rock 'n Roll and the popular music industry |
 | William Terriss green plaque in London | William Terriss 1847-1897 hero of the Adelphi melodramas met his untimely end outside this theatre 16 Dec 1897 |
 | Ellen Terry, Charles Wyndham, and Queen's Theatre black plaque in London | Queen's Theatre The old Queen's Theatre occupied this site for just eleven years from 1867 to 1878 and was renowned in its day, albeit fleetingly, for the distinguished players, including Ellen Terry and Charles Wyndham, who trod its boards |
 | Don Arden, Small Faces, Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, and 3 others in London | Impresario Don Arden and mod band "Small Faces" (Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Jimmy Winston) worked here 1965-1967 |
 | Rosa Lewis green plaque in London | Rosa Lewis 1867-1952 Chef de cuisine and hotelier dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street' ruled the Cavendish hotel in a building on this site |
 | John Vanbrugh and C. J. Phipps black plaque in London | Her Majesty's Theatre In 1705 Sir John Vanbrugh built the first of four theatres on this famous site. The second theatre, known variously as 'The King's' and 'Her Majesty's', was the home of Italian Opera, while the present theatre, designed by C J Phipps and opened in 1897, remains a home for major musicals |
 | Frederick Winsor green plaque in London | Frederick Winsor 1763-1830 gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas, from a retort located here June 1807 |
 | Francis Chichester green plaque in London | Pioneer aviator, sailor and author Sir Francis Chichester KBE 1901-1972 single-handed circumnavigator of the world 1966-67 lived here 1944-1972 |
 | Peter Cook green plaque in London | Peter Cook 1937-1995 comedian and "only twin" co-founded and ran the Establishment Club here 1961-1964 |
 | John Adams-Acton green plaque in London | John Adams-Acton (1831-1910) sculptor, lived here |
 | Margery Allingham green plaque in London | Margery Allingham (1904-1966) writer of crime fiction and creator of Albert Campion lived here 1916-1926 |
 | Laura Ashley and Bernard Ashley green plaque in London | Laura Ashley designer 1925-1985 began printing fabrics here with her husband, Bernard 1954-1956 |
 | Tony Ray-Jones green plaque in London | Tony Ray-Jones photographer 1941-1972 lived and worked here |
 | T. S. Eliot green plaque in London | T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 poet, critic, playwright lived here |
 | Mary Seacole green plaque in London | Mary Seacole 1805-1881 Jamaican nurse heroine of the Crimean war lived in a house on this site |
 | Oscar Wilde green plaque in London | The first performances of 'A Woman of no Importance' 19th April 1893 and 'An Ideal Husband' 3rd January 1895 by Oscar Wilde were presented at this theatre This plaque was unveiled by Sir John Gielgud on 3rd January 1995 |
 | David Thompson green plaque in London | David Thompson 1770-1857 explored and mapped Canada studied at this school 1777-1784 |
 | Denis Johnson green plaque in London | Denis Johnson (c. 1760 - 1833) From his workshop on this site in 1819 made and sold Britain's first bicycle in its hobby-horse form |
 | Paul de Lamerie green plaque in London | Paul de Lamerie 1688-1751 The King's Silversmith lived and worked in a house on this site 1738-1751 |
 | Edward Elgar green plaque in London | Sir Edward Elgar composer 1857-1934 opened and recorded in these studios on 12th November 1931 |
| Robert Browning green plaque in London | Robert Browning [full inscription unknown] |
 | Joseph Thomas Clover green plaque in London | Pioneer anaesthetist Dr Joseph T. Clover 1825-1882 lived in a house on this site 1853-1882 |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle green plaque in London | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author 1859-1930 worked and wrote here 1891 |
| James Yearsley green plaque in London | Dr James Yearsley [full inscription unknown] |
 | Alfred Ayer green plaque in London | Philosopher Professor Sir Alfred Ayer 1910-1989 lived here 1980-1989 |
 | J. H. Hertz green plaque in London | Dr J. H. Hertz CH 1872-1946 Chief Rabbi of the British Empire lived here 1913-1946 |
 | Henry Hall green plaque in London | Henry Hall 1898-1989 Dance band director and impresario Pioneer of BBC popular music (1924-1964) lived here 1959-1981 |
| Szmul 'Artur' Zygielbojm green plaque in London | Jewish Workers' Bund Leader representative to the Polish Parliament-in-exile Szmul 'Artur' Zygielbojm 1895-1943 Took his life in protest at the world's indifference to Nazi extermination of the Jews lived nearby 1942 - 1943 |
| Anna Neagle green plaque in London | Dame Anna Neagle [full inscription unknown] |
 | Francesco Paolo Tosti green plaque in London | Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti K.C.V.O Musician 1846-1916 Lived in a house on this site 1886-1916 |
 | John Milsom Rees green plaque in London | Sir John Milsom Rees GCVO 1866-1952 Surgeon lived here 1914-1939 |
 | Charles Babbage green plaque in London | Charles Babbage (1791-1871) mathematician & pioneer of the modern computer lived in a house on this site 1839-1871 |
| Vera Brittain green plaque in London | Vera Brittain [full inscription unknown] |
 | Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and The Club green plaque in London | Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr. Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764 |
 | Winston Churchill green plaque in London | Sir Winston Churchill spoke here at the former Caxton Hall 1937-1942 |
 | James Purdey the Younger green plaque in London | James Purdey the Younger 1828-1909 Gunmaker built these premises in 1880 to house his new showrooms and workshops |
 | Leo Bonn green plaque in London | Leo Bonn 1830-1929 founded what is now the Royal National Institute for Deaf People in this building 9th June 1911 |
 | Arthur Fleischmann green plaque in London | Arthur Fleischmann KCSG FRBS MD sculptor 1896-1990 lived and worked here 1958-1990 |
 | Dorothy Nevill green plaque in London | Lady Dorothy Nevill 1826-1913 horticulturist, collector, writer and hostess live here 1873-1913 |
 | Grantly Dick-Read green plaque in London | Dr Grantly Dick-Read 1890-1959 20th century pioneer of natural childbirth practised here 1935-1941 |
 | Ken Colyer blue plaque in London | Ken Colyer 1928-1988 played New Orleans jazz here in the basement 'Studio 51' 1950-1973 |
 | Green plaque № 3101 in London | On this site, until destroyed by bombing during the winter of 1940, stood an archway and Mayfair's oldest house. 'The Cottage. 1618 A.D.' from where a shepherd tended his flock whilst Tyburn idled nearby. |
 | Sidney Webb green plaque in London | Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield) 1859-1947 Social Researcher and Reformer Founder of the LSE was born in a house on this site 13 July 1859 |
 | Jane Austen green plaque in London | Jane Austen 1775-1817 Novelist stayed here 1813-1814 |
 | Juan Pablo Viscardo Y Guzman green plaque in London | Juan Pablo Viscardo Y Guzman 1748-1798 Peruvian essayist herald of Latin American independence lived and died here |
 | Theatre Royal Marylebone green plaque in London | Site of Theatre Royal Marylebone 1832-1959 also known as the Royal West London Theatre home of the Victorian dramatic & music hall tradition |
 | Olaudah Equiano green plaque in London | Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) "The African" lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition |
 | Station 39 of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service green plaque in London | Station 39 of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service was located in Weymouth Mews where 200 volunteer ambulance drivers and personnel served 1939-1945 |
 | Siegfried Sassoon green plaque in London | Siegfried Sassoon MC Poet, novelist, biographer 1886-1967 lived and worked in a house on this site 1919-1925 |
 | Arthur Haygarth green plaque in London | Arthur Haygarth 1825-1903 Cricketer, historian, Old Harrovian died here |
 | Edward Dannreuther and Richard Wagner green plaque in London | Edward Dannreuther Musician 1844-1905 lived here 1873-1894 host to Richard Wagner for 5 weeks in 1877 |
 | Michael Balcon green plaque in London | Sir Michael Balcon 1890-1977 film maker lived here 1927-1939 |
 | Norwegian Government in Exile green plaque in London | Headquarters of the Norwegian Government In Exile located here 1940-1945 |
 | Henry Sylvester Williams green plaque in London | Henry Sylvester Williams 1867-1911 Anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner first black councillor in Westminster elected 1906 for Church Street Ward |
 | William Lilly green plaque in London | William Lilly (1602 - 1681) Master Astrologer Lived in a house on this site |
 | Joseph Mallord William Turner green plaque in London | Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775-1851) Artist was born in a house on this site |
 | Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle green plaque in London | Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle dined here with the publisher of 'Lippincott's Magazine' on 30 August 1889, a meeting that led to 'The Sign Of Four' & 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' |
 | Philip Jones green plaque in London | Philip Jones CBE 1928 - 2000 Musician, founder of the Philip Jones brass ensemble and pioneer of brass chamber music lived here 1964 - 2000 |
 | Gerald Finzi green plaque in London | Gerald Finzi 1901-1956 English composer was born here |
 | Edward Meryon green plaque in London | Edward Meryon MD FRCP 1807-1880 first described muscular dystrophy lived here 1846-1880 |
 | Pasquale Paoli green plaque in London | General Pasquale Paoli 1725-1807 who fought tirelessly for the freedom of Corsica lived in a building on this site |
 | Green plaque № 4276 in London | This building was the site of the Westminster office of the Penny Post and then the Two-penny Post 1794-1834 |
 | Bernard Sunley green plaque in London | Bernard Sunley 1910-1964 Contractor and philanthropist lived and worked here 1941-1958 |
 | Lennox Berkeley green plaque in London | Sir Lennox Berkeley 1903-1989 Composer lived here 1947-1989 |
| John Gielgud black plaque in London | Apollo Theatre Originally intended for musicals, the Apollo Theatre opened in 1901 with a farce called "The Belle of Bohemia". A popular policy of musicals, drama and comedy has continued to the present day. Notable long runs in recent years include Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with Sir John Gielgud |
 | London Pavilion black plaque in London | London Pavilion On this site between 1885 and 1934 stood the re-sited London Pavilion built following the demolition of its predecessor in Tichborne Street. The first West End theatre to introduce the now familiar "tip-up" seats, the London Pavilion was converted into a cinema in 1934, and a retail and entertainment centre in 1988 |
 | W. G. R. Sprague and John Gielgud black plaque in London | Queen's Theatre Built by W G R Sprague, the Queen's Theatre opened in 1908 with a comedy The Sugar Bowl. While the Edwardian interior has largely survived, the theatre suffered bomb damage during the last war, re-opening in 1959 with the present exterior and John Gielgud in The Ages of Man |
 | Hilaire Belloc, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, and John Galsworthy green plaque in London | Site of The Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers, including Belloc, Chesterton, Conrad and Galsworthy, met regularly in the early years of the 20th Century |
 | Green plaque № 3009 in London | Savoy Theatre opened in 1881 the Savoy Theatre was the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity |
 | Keith Clifford Hall green plaque in London | Keith Clifford Hall FSMC FAAO DCLP 1910-1964 Pioneer in the fitting of contact lenses practised here 1945-1964 |
 | Old Slaughters Coffee House and Royal Society for the Protection of Animals green plaque in London | Site of Old Slaughters Coffee House where on 16th June 1824 was formed the society now known as RSPCA |
 | Green plaque № 6408 in London | Home of BBC School Radio 1952 - 1993. Pioneer of education for children through radio broadcasting. |
 | Lionel Logue green plaque in London | Lionel Logue CVO 1880-1953 speech therapist to King George VI practised here 1926-1952 |
 | Francis Crick green plaque in London | Francis Crick O.M. F.R.S. 1916-2004 Eminent Scientist Nobel Laureate Discoverer of the structure of DNA & the genetic code lived here 1945-1947 |
 | Tyburn Tree green plaque in London | 105 Catholic martyrs lost their lives at the Tyburn Gallows near this site 1535-1681 |
 | John William Polidori green plaque in London | John William Polidori 1795-1821 poet and novelist, author of 'The Vampyre' born and died here |
| Roger Bannister unknown plaque in London | Sir Roger Bannister (b.1929) [full inscription unknown] |
| Charlie Chaplin unknown plaque in London | Charlie Chaplin [full inscription unknown] |
 | Sake Dean Mahomed green plaque in London | Site of Hindoostane Coffee House 1810 London's first Indian restaurant owned by Sake Dean Mahomed 1759-1851 |
| Terence Donovan green plaque in London | Terence Donovan 1936-1996 photographer worked here 1978-1996 |
 | John Peake Knight green plaque in London | John Peake Knight 1828-86 Inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here 9th Dec. 1868 |
 | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears green plaque in London | Benjamin Britten composer 1913-1976 and Peter Pears singer 1910-1986 lived and worked here 1943-1946 |
 | Green plaque № 5176 in London | Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil 1st April 1918 |
| London Palladium black plaque in London | London Palladium Opened in 1910, the London Palladium has been famed for variety for many years, while the site on which it is built has been connected for over a century with entertainments as diverse as Frederick Hengler's "Grand Cirque" in 1871 and the National Skating Palace of 1884 |
| W. G. R. Sprague black plaque in London | Globe Theatre The third theatre to bear the title of its Bankside namesake was originally known as the "Hick's Theatre" and was built in 1906 by the eminent theatre designer W G R Sprague. The Globe Theatre continues to delight with a successful mix of serious drama and top comedy |
| C. J. Phipps and Eleonora Duse black plaque in London | Lyric Theatre Built by C J Phipps. The Lyric Theatre opened in 1888 with the comic opera "Dorothy" and has since developed a tradition of drama, light comedy and popular musicals. The great Italian actress Eleonora Duse made her debut here in "Camille" in 1893 |
 | Alexis Soyer green plaque in London | Alexis Soyer 1810-1858 Chef, author of cookbooks, inventor lived here |
| James Barry unknown plaque in London | James Barry (1741–1806) [full inscription unknown] |
| Frederick Stanley unknown plaque in London | Lord Stanley (1841–1908) [full inscription unknown] |
| Herbert Wilcox unknown plaque in London | Herbert Wilcox (1890–1977) [full inscription unknown] |
| Josef Dallos green plaque in London | Josef Dallos 1905-1979 Hungarian born British ophthalmologist invented living eye impression technique 1930. First contact lens only practice here 1937-1964 |
 | Duchess Theatre and Noël Coward black plaque in London | Duchess Theatre The Duchess Theatre began a distinguished career as a home for both drama and comedy when it opened with the war play "Tunnel Trench" in 1929. Prominent productions have included the 1936 London debut of T S Eliot's "Murder In The Cathedral" and Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" in 1942 |
 | Wendy Richard blue plaque in London | Wendy Richard M.B.E. 1943-2009 English actress lived here 1948-1953 |
 | The Bee Gees, Barry Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb, and Maurice Gibb green plaque in London | The Bee Gees. Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb composed and stayed here 1968-1980 |
| Black plaque № 9043 in London | In recognition of Westminster's councillors and officers and the civil and emergency services during their actions during World Was II (1939-1945) This plaque was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Westminster City Council Councillor Angela Hooper CBE for the 50th anniversary of VE Day 8th May 1995 |
 | Edward Lear green plaque in London | From 1859-1865 the poet, painter and traveller Edward Lear 1812 - 1888 made a house on this site his London home and studio. Lear Bicentenary 2012 |
 | Gas Light & Coke Company green plaque in London | Gas Light & Coke Company 1813-1937 site of a gasworks which provided the first public supply of gas in the world |
 | Bronze plaque № 10799 in London | This boundary wall of the Rutland Estate was destroyed by a bomb during World War II on 25 September 1940. At the request of residents a right of way was established when the wall was rebuilt by the City of Westminster in 1948 and has become to be known as the 'hole in the wall' Unveiled on 28 October 1988 |
 | Bronze plaque № 11860 in London | City of Westminster On the site now occupied by the statue of King Charles I was erected the original Queen Eleanor's Cross a replica of which stands in front of Charing Cross Station. Mileages from London are measured from the site of the original cross. |
| Green plaque № 11890 in London | Look left to St James's Square and right to St James's Church in Jermyn Street. All this was the inspiration of one man: Henry Jermyn Earl of St Albans KG 1605-1684 diplomat, favourite of Queen Henrietta Maria and "founder of the West End" who died in his house on this site |