City of Westminster
Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers, including Belloc, Chesterton, Conrad and Galsworthy met regularly in the early years of the 20th century.
W1, Gerrard Street, 16
Built in 1730.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mont Blanc restaurant
Poet, essayist and historian. Born France. Catholic. His works include 'Caut...
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton....
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not b...
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literatu...
Opened sometime early in the 20th century by Alphonse Pasquier. Edward Garnet...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mont Blanc restaurant
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
This is the home where he died, 2 years earlier than the plaque would have it.
On the map of 1862, when this area was first developed, it looks as easy to travel north-south on what is now Rutland Gate/Rutland Street...
Greater London Council Sir Winston Churchill K.G., 1874-1965, prime minister, lived and died here.
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
We initially struggled to identify just who the Countess of Rosebery was in 2006, being led astray by what we have to put down to an erro...
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