Erection date: 2020
Sir Cecil Beaton, 1904 - 1980, photographer and designer, lived and worked here 1940 - 1975.
English Heritage
Unveiled before 5 November 2020.
SW7, Pelham Place, 8
Amongst Beaton's sitters here were: John Osborne, Arthur Miller, Rose Macaulay, Mick Jagger, Patrick Lichfield, Benjamin Britten, Twiggy, Sir William and Lady Walton, Greta Garbo, the Queen Mother, and Gilbert and George.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cecil Beaton - SW7
Photographer, painter, interior designer and designer for stage and screen. B...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cecil Beaton - SW7
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Enid Blyton, 1897 - 1968, children's writer, lived here, 1920 - 1924. English Heritage
Sir Henry Cole lived here 1879 - 1880. He originated the custom of sending Christmas cards and was largely responsible for the foundation...
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
The strange raised public space (hardly a garden) at the centre of this square was once a proper garden but then an electrical sub-statio...
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