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Plaque

Kenneth Williams - Allsop Place

Erection date: 22/2/2014

Inscription

Kenneth Williams, 1926 - 1988, comic actor, lived here in flat 62, 1963 - 1970.
English Heritage

Plaque unveiled by Barbara Windsor.

Site: Kenneth Williams - Allsop Place (1 memorial)

NW1, Allsop Place, Farley Court

Williams's flat was on the 9th, top floor, of this 1929 block.  From : "On moving into Farley Court, Williams was "elated", writing in his diary, "My bedroom looks out over Regent's Park. The trees are turning now and the sight is beautiful. I can see all the traffic twinkling down the Marylebone Rd…It's all so marvellous, I could cry." Later, in a more misanthropic mood, Williams wrote of looking down upon "the nits crowding round outside the waxworks. How I loathe them and Madame Tussaud"."

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Comedy actor. Born Bingfield Street, N1. David Benson's 6 minute video of Dav...

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