Erection date: 11/8/2013
The British Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London, was given on 21 March 1825 in the Argyll Rooms Concert Hall on this site.
Royal Philharmonic Society
City of Westminster
W1, Regent Street, 252, NatWest Bank
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. Â A new building was designed, as par...
Composer. Born (we only have his baptism date) in Bonn (now Germany). His nin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
Created as the Philharmonic Society of London, it had an orchestra which init...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Folgate Street was known as White Lion Street until 1938. Â On the south side of the street number 10, two houses to the left (east) of 12...
This building was opened as the headquarters of the National Institute for the Deaf by His Majesty King George VI when HRH the Duke of Yo...
The foundation stone is directly below the Shepherd memorial. Both can be seen to the right of our photo, on the stair tower, partially h...
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the Crimean War, lived in a house on this site. The Portman Estate
The building on the corner of Broomhouse Road (of which you can see a section to the right of our photo) used to be the Royal British Leg...
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