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
February 2013: planning permission was granted to build a theatre on this site. 2023: Now the plans are for housing and a Shakespeare Mus...
English Heritage Robert Travers Herford, 1860 - 1950, Unitarian minister, scholar and interpreter of Judaism, lived and worked here.
The eleven pavement plaques can be seen randomly distributed over this paved area. The Nightingale Street Buildings plaque can just be se...
In our photo Daniell's plaque on number 14 is nearest the camera.
There was a row of houses here called Hanover Cottages. Â You can see them on the wonderful Time Travel Explorer map of 1830.Â
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