Erection date: 1985
Barbara Pym, 1913 - 1980, novelist, lived here, 1960 - 1972.
From a paper presented at the 2012 conference of the North American Barbara Pym Society we deduce that the plaque was erected in or before the mid 1980s, by whom we cannot discover.
NW6, Brooksville Avenue, 40
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Barbara Pym
Novelist. Born as Barbara Mary Crampton Pym in Oswestry, Shropshire. Lived in...
This plaque was located here for a short time. Although English Heritage is credited, they were not involved in its erection, which proba...
A smaller stone in the lower right corner seems to be part of the overall design and has some markings on it but we could make nothing of...
These three men must have been the vicars at St Philips, at the years given.
The Croydon Guardian tells about this building being home to the 144-year old family furniture business House of Reeves. Both these plaqu...
Greater London Council William Richard Lethaby, 1857 - 1931, architect, lived here, 1880 - 1891.
IanVisits reports that the first carriages carrying paying passengers actually travelled through the Channel Tunnel in 1994 and that is c...
Patrick MacDowell, R.A., 1799 - 1870, eminent sculptor, lived here for many years.
Our thanks once again to David Hopkins for his generosity with his Latin knowledge.
From their website: YWCA was founded in 1855 by Miss Emma Robarts and The Hon Mrs Arthur Kinnaird. Miss Robarts started organising groups for young women who were coming to London for the first ti...
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