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==Legacies== Dame Flora Robson Avenue, built in 1962, in Simonside, [[South Shields]], is named after her.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/ne349rb|title=Interesting Information for Dame Flora Robson Avenue, South Shields, NE34 9RB Postcode|last=StreetCheck|website=StreetCheck}}</ref> There is a plaque on the house in Wykeham Terrace, Dyke Road, Brighton, and also one in the doorway of [[Church of St. Nicholas, Brighton|St Nicholas's Church]], of which Flora Robson was a great supporter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openplaques.org/plaques/991|title=Flora Robson grey plaque|website=openplaques.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://openplaques.org/plaques/31535|title=Flora Robson white plaque|website=openplaques.org}}</ref> There is also a plaque to commemorate the opening of the [[Prince Charles Cinema]] (Leicester Square, London) by Flora Robson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/dame-flora-robson|title=Dame Flora Robson|website=London Remembers}}</ref> In 1996, the [[British Film Institute]] erected a plaque at number 14 Marine Gardens, location of Flora Robson's other home in [[Brighton]], where she lived from 1961 to 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/flora-robson-film-cell-plaque-in-brighton-1055|title=Flora Robson film cell plaque in Brighton|first=Good|last=Stuff|website=www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk}}</ref> A plaque at 40 Handside Lane in Welwyn Garden City records Flora Robson living there from 1923 to 1925.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemsfordonline.co.uk/Blueplaques.html#blueplaques|title=History - Web Designer in Welwyn Garden City - 01727 825934 - Value for Money|website=www.lemsfordonline.co.uk}}</ref> A [[blue plaque]] sponsored by Southgate District Civic Trust and Robson's former school [[Palmers Green High School]] was unveiled at her family home from 1910 to 1921, The Lawe, 65, The Mall, Southgate, on 25 April 2010.<ref name="plaque" /> Robson attended the opening of the Flora Robson Playhouse in [[Jesmond]], Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1962, which was named in her honour.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dame Flora will Open Theatre Named After Her |newspaper=The Stage |date=2 August 1962}}</ref> The building was demolished in 1971 and the theatre company it housed relocated to the new [[Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne|University Theatre]].{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}}
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