English Heritage
Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970
Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935
writers and reformers, lived here.
Site: Brittain & Holtby (1 memorial)
WC1, Doughty Street, 58
English Heritage
Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970
Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935
writers and reformers, lived here.
WC1, Doughty Street, 58
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Brittain & Holtby
Vera Mary Brittain was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire the daught...
Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Bri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Brittain & Holtby
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Between 2012 (our close-up photo) and 2016 (the long shot) the plaque was moved from its position in front of the building on the pavemen...
Sounds like an amazing turnout, but we wonder who actually counted all those people. The pool has been filled in, and we reckon from the ...
We failed to find this in Dec-Jan 2017, even with the exact address. It shows a ship inside a bottle. This cast-iron roundel is one of 22...
The plaque does not appear on the latest Google Street View (March 2019) so would have been erected after then.
See Dick Whittington. The picture is the charming logo adopted by the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill.
Author and engineer. Born in Woore, Shropshire. He invented the 'Adams Axle' which was used on British trains throughout the steam age. His writings include 'English Pleasure Carriages' and 'Roads ...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
{In the scroll at the top, French for 'My faith in God':} Ma foi en dieu. This stone, the first in the new street, was laid by Robert E...
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
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