Frederick Stanley green plaque

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# 130 Regent Street, W1 Standing before this grand Regent Street address in 1892, Lord Stanley of Preston made a decision that would echo through the centuries and across an ocean. It was here, in the workshop of a skilled London silversmith, that the aristocratic Governor General of Canada selecte...

Location

130 Regent Street, W1

Inscription

Lord Stanley of Preston purchased the original Stanley Cup from a silversmith on this site in 1892 for the people of Canada to commemorate amateur and professional ice hockey. The cup is now in the hockey hall of fame in Toronto.