Charlie Chaplin blue plaque

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Standing at this modest Kennington address, it's remarkable to think that a nine-year-old Charlie Chaplin found brief refuge here during one of the most turbulent periods of his childhood. In 1898, after his mother Hannah was committed to an asylum and his father had abandoned the family, young Char...

Location

39 Methley Street, Kennington

Inscription

Charlie Chaplin 1889-1997 film maker and Water Rat lived here 1898-1899