{Beside a blue line drawing of the Globe Theatre:}
In thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker CBE, actor, director, producer, 1919 - 1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish.
SE1, Cathedral Street, Southwark Cathedral
The Wanamaker plaque is to the right of the Shakespeare memorial.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Created when the lease ran out for The Theatre in 1597 so the building was di...
Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Southwark Cathedral - Sam Wanamaker
Carved into the panel behind the figure are images of the original Globe Thea...
No inscription remains legible but we believe we've found the painting used as the model for the head on the right and it's Erasmus. Â So ...
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As we photographed the nearby Cable Street plaque a 'person of the street' approached and told us about another plaque, down a dark alley...
The birthday was on Saturday 11 June, so we take the date on the plaque to refer to the party.
Nash designed this terrace of six houses, now numbered 66 - 71. Â He also reconstructed the house at the other end, on the corner of Bloom...
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