Erection date: 7/8/2013
Sammy Davis Jnr performed here, August 1969.
The Hippodrome
The Talk of the Town
Unveiled by Bruce Forsyth.
WC2, Cranbourn Street, Hippodrome casino
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Sammy Davis Jr.
Born Harlem in New York City into a show-biz family. Â Hit the big-time in 195...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Sammy Davis Jr.
From Hippodrome Casino: "Originally opened in 1900 by the renowned theatre ar...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hippodrome - Sammy Davis Jr.
Sir Bruce appeared eight times between May 1964 and February 1981 and unveile...
The plaque refers to the London Daily Mirror newspaper which challenged Houdi...
Judy Garland, 1922 - 1969, "The greatest entertainer who ever lived" performe...
This foundation stone was laid by Dame Flora Robson DBE on Monday 18th December 1961.
This clock tower has a non-identical pair, in Northolt, erected with the same text on the plaque and created by the same clockmaker, but ...
In our photo you can see how distressed the lettering is, and that it was once picked out in gold paint.
This building was erected in the 1930s. Actor Angela Lansbury contributed to the 2008 restoration of the clock.
Camden Passage (link now dead) had a picture of the unveiling by Poet Laureate Betjeman and church dignitaries and a suggestion that the ...
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