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.
The three plaques are in a locked room which the staff kindly opened for us. See a photo taken at the unveiling of the Blanke plaque. W...
Mrs Knott's dame school. H.G. Wells was a pupil here, 1871 - 1874.
Near this site Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling, Alexander Stokes and Herbert Wilson performed experiments that led to...
{In a circle around the edge of the image:} Roman warehouse uncovered 20 yards south of here. Dated 100 AD. Recovered 1988. Preserved.
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
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