Dylan Thomas, poet, 1914 - 1953, drank here!
Wheatsheaf Heritage
W1, Rathbone Place, 25, The Wheatsheaf Public House
The pair of them drank individually at several pubs in the area. Whether they quaffed here together at the same time is not known for sure, but the conversation would have been fascinating.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dylan Thomas - The Wheatsheaf
Poet. Born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, which is now a themed holiday renta...
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Dylan Thomas - The Wheatsheaf
Public house popular with London's Bohemian set in the 1930s, as were all the...
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Dylan Thomas - The Wheatsheaf
Greater London Council Baron Friedrich von Hügel, 1852 - 1925, theologian lived here, 1882 - 1903.
We can't explain the quotation marks on the inscription and think they are probably not significant.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833 - 1898, artist, lived here, 1865 - 1867. English Heritage
English Heritage Sir George Frederic Still, 1868 - 1941, paediatrician, lived here.
William Gilpin 1724 - 1804 These flats have been built on the site of Cheam School. From 1752 - 1777, William Gilpin, satirised by Willia...
Earl Jowitt, in his Lord Chancellor robes and wig, raises both hands, palms towards us. Behind him stand two carved figures: that on the ...
Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into a history group in the early 1980s. More info at What's in Wapping.
On this site there used to be a sister to Hotel Russell, also designed by Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolished in the 196...
Lord Mayor in 1981-2. Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994. A guest on Desert Island Discs in 1982 - at the picture source you can listen to his choices.
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