Erection date: 16/9/2020
Christine Granville, born Krystyna Skarbek, 1908 - 1952, SOE agent, lived here 1949 - 1952.
English Heritage
W8, Lexham Gardens, 1
Post-WW2 this house in the centre of London’s post-war Polish community was the cheap Shelbourne Hotel, run by the Polish Relief Society.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Church...
Wartime special agent. Britain’s first and longest-serving female WW2 secret ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The plaque is at the bottom of the escalators and stairs.
Queen Victoria once rested at the Fox and Crown after her horses had bolted down the hill and she had had rather a shock. The landlord, ...
Collecting gravestones is not part of our mission, but we have transcribed the gravestone as best we can - there may be mis-readings.
Nelly Power (1854 - 1887) actress & singer, lived here. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
Johann Strauss 1st, 1804 to 1849, father of the Waltz dynasty and composer of the 'Radetzky March' lodged here (formerly Hotel du Commerc...
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