Erection date: 2006
Alfred Bestall, 1892 - 1986, illustrator of Rupert Bear, lived here 1936 - 1966.
English Heritage
KT5, Cranes Park, 58
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alfred Bestall
Children's comic strip character. Created by the artist Mary Tourtel. In 1935...
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He s...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alfred Bestall
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
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