In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club, also the Coal Hole, the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member.
WC2, Strand, Savoy Buildings
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fountain Tavern
Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of th...
First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Fountain Tavern
Whitecross Debtors' Prison, 1813 - 1870 Warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son, the Duke of St. Albans, to lay ou...
First erected in 1880 and moved here in 1904. We've found two images of it in the original location (iStock and Harringay on-line) which...
Peter House This block was built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing and named after Peter Piaktow, who was known as Peter the Pai...
The splendid A London Inheritance has found a booklet that was published to raise money for the rebuilding fund. That site quotes extensi...
Marie Taglioni, 1809 - 1884, ballet dancer, lived here in 1875 - 1876. London County Council
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