Westminster City Council
Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764.
Honsway C&E Foundation
W1, Gerrard Street, 9
This is the only surviving purpose-built 18th century tavern, now in 2011, a Chinese deli.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
The (Literary) Club was founded in the Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street, by...
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
See a similar plaque in N7 for information about them.
The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph. The quotation is an edited version of Isaiah 35:1, “The wilder...
On the wall behind are two baskets for flowers and some screw holes. And on the wall a little to the left of the photo is another similar...
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
The Great Synagogue stood near this site until 1272. Corporation of London
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