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...
Our photo of the plaque comes from Gary Hartwell's Flickr page. He brought it to our attention way back in 2007 We have recently visited...
Above the entrance there is a decorative cartouche on which one can still, just about read: "Central Institute for Swedish Gymnastics". ...
We photographed the plaque some years ago, but did not get a picture of the building on which it was located. We have checked around the ...
LookandLearn has a photo of the building, no.1, before it was demolished. The Dickens relief also commemorates his stay at this address.
2023: the building seems to be used by the Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and also by the Godiva Printing Shop.
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