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...
The plaque has left room for one more re-roofing, due, on this 64 year maintenance cycle, in 2026.
July 2017: The lamp and plaque have gone. We've made two visits, hunting all over Furnivall Gardens but found nothing. Thankfully no one ...
Designed for himself by Scott, this neo-Georgian building won the 1928 RIBA architectural medal, displayed at the centre of the first flo...
The house has obviously seen better days. 2015: campaign to save it.
We've put the pin for these 6 plaques at the entrance to the alleyway but they are actually laid into the ground, distributed along the a...
Born Hanover. When the last of Queen Anne's 17 children died without issue (no one could accuse her of not trying) there were lots of Catholic potential claimants, but Britain wanted a Protestant h...
Architect. Born Thomas Edward Collcutt, in Jericho, Oxford. President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1906 to 1908. He designed the Imperial Institute building in Kensington, the ...
English Heritage Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1969, novelist, lived here, 1934-1969.
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