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...
The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
Greater London Council Francis Turner Palgrave, 1824 - 1897, compiler of the "Golden Treasury", lived here, 1862 - 1875.
We think Evelyn Denington must be the politician (1907 – 1998) who served on the LCC and then the GLC, 1946 - 77, where she was Chair of ...
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