Erection date: 18/11/2011
Sir John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli C. H. (1899 - 1970) conductor & cellist, lived in a house on this site, 1913 - 1929.
Marchmont Association
Site: Sir John Barbirolli - Marchmont Street (1 memorial)
WC1, Marchmont Street
Why, you ask, is this plaque attached to a low, free-standing, purpose-built pillar thing rather than to the building? Â Because the building, The , grade II, and English Heritage refused permission for the plaque to be attached to it. Â Strange, since throughout Bloomsbury there are many listed Georgian-style terrace houses with English Heritage plaques attached. Â Perhaps the plaques are now seen as "traditional" and thought inappropriate for a modernist building.
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