Cicely Mary Barker, 1895 - 1973, artist and creator of the Flower Fairy children's books, lived and worked here from 1924 to 1961.
Croydon's Heritage
CR0, The Waldrons, 23
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cicely Mary Barker
A series of books created by the illusrator Cicely Mary Barker. The first one...
Illustrator. Born at West Croydon. An epilepsy sufferer, she was housebound f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cicely Mary Barker
We think the "Croydon's Heritage" plaques must be erected by a section of Cro...
We are indebted to Rosemary Jeffreys for the translation from the Latin. The business about "the south part being his own" is partly expl...
Housman lived here 1885-1905 when he moved, with his landlady to 1 Yarborough Villas, Pinner.
British History On-line gives "This part of the site was rebuilt in 1951–5 for the College of Estate Management as a two-storey block in ...
This plaque was erected between 2015 and 2018. We think this coincided with the planting of a tree (just outside our photo, to the right)...
Orwell was in lodgings here for a brief period: from late 1927 to Spring 1928, when he moved to Paris.
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