On this site stood the Pall Mall Restaurant where the Rugby Football Union was founded on the 26th January 1871.
Installed in or before 2012.
SW1, Cockspur Street, 1, Oceanic House
August 2022: we were informed that this plaque had gone, while the building was undergoing some sort of transformation. By September it was back. Our thanks to Lionel Wright for that information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rugby Football Union
Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rule...
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875 - 1956) author, journalist and originator of the 'Clerihew', lived here 1911 - 1927.
Anne Shelton, 1928 - 1994, popular singer and the World War II "Forces' Favourite", lived here. London Borough of Southwark Voted by the ...
This is a horrible place to spend any time - far too much traffic and pollution, and pig-pens corralling people on the pavements.
This plaque is in the same style as others erected by Firemen Remembered, although they are not acknowledged on the plaque itself.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the fire this plaque was unveiled, on one of those temporary easel things (looks like a flip-board stand ...
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