Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century there lived several members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell and the Stracheys.
Erected by Camden London Borough Council
WC1, Gordon Square, 50
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square
An influential group of artists and writers who were friends during the first...
Known professionally as Clive Bell, he was an art critic and writer who marri...
Critic and biographer known professionally as Lytton Strachey. At Cambridge ...
Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself i...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square
The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Os...
Note that, despite its blueness, this is not an English Heritage plaque.
Dransfield Owens Design Ltd was founded in 1998 and is still active in 2022. But the website, www.dodsarchitects.com, for the architects ...
The 'Elder Brethren' are the court of 31 people who run Trinity House, under the Master, currently the Princess Royal. They are drawn fro...
The cartouches are on the two gables on the front elevation. Speel informs that the relief and the plain inscribed stone were moved here ...
Queen Victoria once rested at the Fox and Crown after her horses had bolted down the hill and she had had rather a shock. The landlord, ...
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28 October 1918, age 21, while serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers. "When the advance was held up he ran forward firing his Lewis gun from the hip, he captured...
Born in Arolsen as Helena Frederica Augusta of Waldeck & Pyrmont. Married, in 1882, Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria. Died in the Tyrol. The photograph was taken at the ...
Architects. H. Martin Lidbetter was the son of Hubert Lidbetter (1885-1966), best known for the Euston Road Friends Meeting House (1927). Hubert designed many Quaker meeting houses. Father and son ...
This Square was laid out at the same time as Hoxton Square and in 1922 Charles Square still contained at least some houses from about 1685 - 1745. Only no. 16 remains. Shown in the picture, it w...
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