Erection date: 1984
George Orwell, 1930 - 1950, writer, lived here.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
Orwell lived here for 6 months in 1935 while he was working in the South End Green Bookshop and writing "Keep the Aspidstra Flying". Unveiled by Michael Foot.
NW3, Parliament Hill, 77
No 77 is the end house, with the Heath behind.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell - Parliament Hill
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell - Parliament Hill
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
Politician and journalist. Born Plymouth. Leader of the Labour party 1980-198...
You can see the plaques on either side of the arched entrance to the central courtyard, at the centre of which there is what looks like t...
Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.
This plaque set us wondering: why was this particular path chosen to be lined with these limes from Germany, and why in 1988? Then we rem...
This charming and unusual plaque, placed uncommonly low on the house and doing its best to hide amongst the roses, is not as well-known a...
London County Council Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834, poet and philosopher, lived here.
