Erection date: 1994
English Heritage
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1969, novelist, lived here, 1934-1969.
SW7, Cornwall Gardens, 95, Braemar Mansions - Flat 5
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
Novelist. Born at 2 Onslow Gardens, Pinner, Middlesex. her early life was mar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Church designed by Hawksmoor. Their website has lots of interesting stuff but none of the pictures of the stunning tower on this Hawksmoo...
Ida Lupino (1918 - 1995) actress and film director, born here. The Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America
Eight feet of ground from the stone of this house were given by the Mercers' Company in the year 1835 for the purpose of widening the ent...
The El-Wahabi family lived on the 21st floor.
Lime Grove Panorama, Doctor Who and Breakfast Time made here 1949 - 1992. BBC Heritage Trail
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
The listing text gives “Granite stepped pedestal surmounted by granite crucifix with bronze figures of the dead Christ flanked by Keary a...
Footballer. Born Peter Leslie Osgood at 26 East Crescent, Clewer Without, near Windsor. Made his footballing debut as a seventeen year old junior. Played mainly for Chelsea Football Club, with spel...
Two points about the wording on this plaque. 'Navies' were the men who built the canals which were known as 'navigations'. They moved a...
Michael Minh Matsushita was born on 25 May 1968 in Vietnam, the son of a South Vietnamese soldier killed in the conflict when he was just five months old. At the age of three, he and his mother, Mu...
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