Credit for this entry to:
Bob Baker
A. E. Housman, poet & classical scholar, author of 'A Shropshire Lad', lived here, 1885 - 1886.
Lovely graphic border to this plaque - ears of corn.
W2, Northumberland Place, 39
Housman was in lodgings here for a short time, 1885-6. He had also lived at number 15, 1881-2, and at nearby 82 Talbot Road, 1882-5.
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A. E. Housman - W2
A cycle of sixty-three poems by A. E. Housman. Published in 1896, most were w...
Alfred Edward Housman. Born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. Classical scho...
In 1926 in this house John Logie Baird, 1888 - 1946, first demonstrated telev...
Bolt CourtThe Sun{A facsimile of a page of the paper.}Tuesday 15 September 19...
Plaque unveiled by councillor Catherine West, leader of Islington Council, Un...
