George Frideric Handel, 1685 - 1759, composer, lived in this house from 1723 and died here.
English Heritage
W1, Brook Street, 25
In our photo of the street showing two blue plaques, the Handel building is the one on the right. The one on the left is Hendrix.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Handel
Composer. Born Halle, Germany. Became Kapellmeister to the Elector of Hanover...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Handel
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Handel
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
It's rare for a plaque to specify the time at which it was unveiled - we count ourselves fortunate if we get the year.
On the wall high above the plaque is the school shield. The scroll below the shield reads : schola Rogeri-Cholmeley Mil Highgate.
The rather oddly-placed plaque is only visible from the side street, St Petersburgh Place. Trying to locate an image of the building tha...
Rose bushes are planted in garden area behind this plaque.
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