Here, 50 years ago, Allen Lane published his first paperbacks, thereby changing reading habits throughout the English-speaking world.
30 July 1985.
Site: Allen Lane (1 memorial)
W1, Vigo Street, 8
Here, 50 years ago, Allen Lane published his first paperbacks, thereby changing reading habits throughout the English-speaking world.
30 July 1985.
W1, Vigo Street, 8
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Allen Lane
Publisher. Born as Allen Lane Wlliams in Bristol. His uncle was John Lane, fo...
The gate piers with the urns, that can be seen in our photo, each have a plaque on the other, north facing, side. These are only visible ...
In the photograph the plaque is just to the right of the arch.
Sir Charles Santley (1834 - 1922) singer, lived and died here. L.C.C.
A Lambeth paper reports that Charlie Chaplin, who was born in 1889 and brought up nearby, remembers sitting on the pavement outside this ...
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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