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.
Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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...
Sir Charles MacKerras, CH, AC, CBE, 1925 - 2010, conductor and musicologist, lived here. The Public Memorials Appeal
Doctor Barnardo, 1845 - 1905, began his work for children in a building on this site in 1866. London County Council
London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.
This plaque is doing a good job, masquarading as a City of London plaque, such as at the City of London School, but no erecting body is n...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
The building in the background of the mural is, of course, the old Wembley Stadium.
Greater London Council R.H. Tawney, 1880 - 1962, historian, teacher and political writer, lived here.
The Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) ran from CC to Golders Green and also to (what is now known as) Archway. In 1912 it was extended south to Embankment. Then in the ea...
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