Erection date: 1995
Lord Reith, 1889 - 1971, first Director-General of the BBC, lived here, 1924 - 1930.
English Heritage
SW1, Barton Street, 6
The plaque is located on the side of the building in Cowley Street.
2024: The reports that the house is for sale, with lots of photos.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lord Reith - SW1
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the Briti...
First Director-General of the BBC. Born Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. At 6' 6"...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Lord Reith - SW1
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Dr. John Snow, 1813 - 1858, pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist lived in a house on this site.
At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but then we saw that a screw has gone missing.
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
Soper spoke here every Wednesday afternoon from 1927 until 1998, three weeks before his death. There is some film of him here in the 1975...
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