Erection date: 2005
George MacDonald, 1824 - 1905, story teller, lived here, 1860 - 1863.
English Heritage
NW1, Albert Street, 20, Tudor Lodge
What an interesting contrast of 3 architectural styles on this short stretch of road.
2023: A London Inheritance posted about the area and comments: Tudor Lodge "was built between 1843 and 1844 for the painter Charles Lucy {1814-73}, and believed to be to his own design."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George MacDonald - NW1
Poet, novelist and Christian minister. Born Aberdeenshire. Works include: 'At...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
George MacDonald - NW1
The Harvard plaque does not explain why it is here, on this particular spot. Possibly his father's butcher's shop was here. The Anti-fas...
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing these photos. The Daily Mail reported that in the 1964 Mary Poppins film this "... hou...
'fl' stands for 'floruit' (Latin) which means 'he or she flourished', and denotes the period during which a person was alive.
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
The photograph was taken some years ago and sadly since then, this plaque has been vandalised by being painted over. It is not clear ther...
