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Savoy Theatre Electric Lighting

Walking down a small side street (Carting Lane) down the side of the Savoy Theatre in central London, you glance to your left a see a small green plaque on the wall which points out that the Savoy...

Walking down a small side street (Carting Lane) down the side of the Savoy Theatre in central London, you glance to your left a see a small green plaque on the wall which points out that the Savoy...

  • electric lighting
  • savoy theatre

Measured from the Site of the Original Cross

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...

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...

  • westminster
  • london
  • queen eleanor
  • charles 1

Martin Van Buren Lived Here

Not much of a crowd around this plaque, off a sidestreet in central London “Martin Van Buren [] Eight U.S. President Lived Here” http://openplaques.org/plaques/544    

Not much of a crowd around this plaque, off a sidestreet in central London “Martin Van Buren [] Eight U.S. President Lived Here” http://openplaques.org/plaques/544  

    Samuel Plimsoll

    [plimsoll circle] SAMUEL PLIMSOLL BORN 1824 - DIED 1898 ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF SEAMEN. IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION FOR HIS SERVICES TO THE MEN OF THE SEA. (location...

    [plimsoll circle] SAMUEL PLIMSOLL BORN 1824 - DIED 1898 ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF SEAMEN. IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION FOR HIS SERVICES TO THE MEN OF THE SEA....

    • london
    • plimsoll
    • 99pi
    • england

    Herman Melville

    ENGLISH HERITAGE  HERMAN MELVILLE 1819 - 1891 Author of Moby Dick lived here in 1849

    ENGLISH HERITAGE  HERMAN MELVILLE 1819 - 1891 Author of Moby Dick lived here in 1849

    • melville
    • london
    • england
    • moby dick
    • 1849

    Here Stood the House of Sir Isaac Newton

    Submitted by @theonlymfkirke

    Submitted by @theonlymfkirke

    • newton

    Plaque to Oscar Wilde in Suffolk Street

    The plaque on the rear of the Theatre Royal records that Wilde's plays "a woman of no importance" and "an ideal husband" were first performed here. For context see TQ2980 : Suffolk Street,...

    The plaque on the rear of the Theatre Royal records that Wilde's plays "a woman of no importance" and "an ideal husband" were first performed here. For context see TQ2980 : Suffolk Street,...

    • humphrey gilbert
    • city
    • town centre
    • oscar wilde
    • geograph

    The Society of West End Theatre Half Price Ticket Booth

    Submitted by @GaspardWinckler

    Submitted by @GaspardWinckler

      W. S. Gilbert

      1836 - W.S.GILBERT - 1911 PLAYWRIGHT & POET. HIS FOE WAS FOLLY & HIS WEAPON WIT. TRAGEDY                                             COMEDY

      1836 - W.S.GILBERT - 1911 PLAYWRIGHT & POET. HIS FOE WAS FOLLY & HIS WEAPON WIT. TRAGEDY                                           COMEDY

      • playwright
      • poet
      • london
      • ornate

      Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

      English Heritage: In this house THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD was founded in 1848.    

      English Heritage: In this house THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD was founded in 1848.  

      • london

      Shrapnel scars on the sphynx

      Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux-Egyptian sphinxes, designed by the English architect George John Vulliamy. The sphinxes are cast in bronze and bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that...

      Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux- Egyptian sphinxes, designed by the English architect George John Vulliamy. The sphinxes are cast in bronze and bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that...

      • egypt
      • london
      • thames
      • river
      • oblelisk
      • sphynx

      Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment pt. 1

      Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of three similar named Egypian obelisks and is located in the City of Westminster, on theVictoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It is close to the...

      Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of three similar named Egypian obelisks and is located in the City of Westminster, on theVictoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It is close to the...

      • egypt
      • obelisk
      • london

      Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment pt. 2

      On erection of the obelisk in 1878, a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal containing: a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day, a box of...

      On erection of the obelisk in 1878, a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal containing: a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day, a box of...

      • egypt
      • london
      • thames
      • river
      • oblelisk

      Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment pt. 3

      The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a distinguished anatomist and dermatologist, sponsored its transportation to London from Alexandria at a cost...

      The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a distinguished anatomist and dermatologist, sponsored its transportation to London from Alexandria at a...

      • egypt
      • london
      • thames
      • river
      • oblelisk

      Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment pt. 4

      The effort almost met with disaster on 14 October 1877, in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, when the Cleopatra began wildly rolling, and became uncontrollable. The Olga sent out a rescue boat with...

      The effort almost met with disaster on 14 October 1877, in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, when the Cleopatra began wildly rolling, and became uncontrollable. The Olga sent out a rescue boat with...

      • egypt
      • london
      • thames
      • river
      • oblelisk

      Green plaque at the former Hotel Cecil, The Strand

      The plaque was affixed just inside the outer entrance to the hotel in March 2008, proclaiming: The Royal Air force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil 1st...

      The plaque was affixed just inside the outer entrance to the hotel in March 2008, proclaiming: The Royal Air force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil...

      • geograph
      • wall plaque
      • memorial plaque
      • city
      • town centre
      • london
      • historic sit...

      This Horse Block

      Outside the Athenaeum Club there is an unassuming stone block installed in 1830 to help an ageing Duke of Wellington mount his horse.  THIS HORSE BLOCK WAS ERECTED BY DESIRE OF THE DUKE OF...

      Outside the Athenaeum Club there is an unassuming stone block installed in 1830 to help an ageing Duke of Wellington mount his horse.  THIS HORSE BLOCK WAS ERECTED BY DESIRE OF THE DUKE...

      • london
      • england
      • horse block
      • duke of wellington