Erection date: 22/8/2018
Site of the Red Bull Playhouse, c.1605 - 1665, 17th-century theatre.
London Borough of Islington
Seems they found so little information about this theatre that they filled the space on the plaque with tautology (specific dates and '17th century').
Unveiled by Alexander Armstrong, a descendent of Edward Somerset, fourth earl of Worcester, one-time patron of the Red Bull Theatre.
EC1, Hayward’s Place, 3
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Red Bull Theatre
The inn's owner converted the inn-yard into the theatre. Parliament banned th...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Red Bull Theatre
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, 1856 - 1925, novelist, lived here 1885 - 1888. Greater London Council.
According to Wikipedia the State of Victoria was founded in 1851 so this plaque was erected 16 years too early to commemorate that event....
The site commemorated by this plaque is actually thought to be just the other side of Grove Park, about where the Co-op now is, but Grove...
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on Gibbon.
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