Willy Clarkson, 1861 - 1934, theatrical wigmaker, lived and died here.
London County Council
W1, Wardour Street, 41
The house was designed and built for Clarkson's theatrical costume shop. His celebrated theatrical clients laid the foundation and coping stones, symbolically the first and last stones in the construction of a house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson
Costumier and wigmaker. He took over his father's business in 1878, and becam...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wong Kei Restaurant - Willy Clarkson
Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864, American author, stayed here in 1856. L.C.C.
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Whitaker lived here from 1862 until his death here in 1895.
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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