Emma Cons 1837-1912 and Lilian Baylis 1874-1937 Founders of the "Old Vic" lived here

The London County Council erected a blue plaque to Lilian Baylis and Emma Cons, the founders of the "Old Vic" theatre, at 6 Morton Place, Stockwell, in 1952. The house was demolished in 1971. The plaque was retrieved and presented to the Governors of the Old Vic with the intention that it be displayed in the V&A's Theatre Museum, in Covent Garden. The Theatre Museum closed in the early 2000s and the plaque - along with three others presented to the museum by the LCC in the 1960s - put into storage. The Baylis and Cons plaque resurfaced when the V&A East Storeroom in Stratford, London E20 opened in 2025; it forms part of a display of "Old Vic" memorabilia on the second level. Baylis and Cons were subsequently commemorated individually with Greater London Council plaques - Baylis at 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell in 1974, Cons at 136 Seymour Place, Marylebone in 1978.