16 June 2017

Charlie Chaplin’s Kennington home honoured with a blue plaque

Charlie Chaplin’s Kennington home honoured with a blue plaque
Charlie Chaplin has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at his former London home in Brixton Road, Kennington – his last British home. ... It’s said that the tramp was based on a local character from Kennington. Glenshaw Mansions was newly built when Chaplin lived there, but survives intact, despite the bomb that fell just behind it during the Second World War. ...

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