George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903 - 1950, lived and worked here as senior master of the former Hawthorn High School for Boys, April 1932 - July 1933.
Hayes Literary Society
UB3, Church Road, 116 - 118, Fountain House Hotel
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George Orwell - Hayes
School in Hayes, in the Borough of Hillingdon at which George Orwell taught f...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
George Orwell - Hayes
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Or...
Number 12, the eastern half of the building on this concave corner is, 2014, occupied by Leon, but it used to be the pub The King Lud. Bu...
Thanks to our colleague Alan Patient for these photos, taken in 2018, of the concourse showing the memorials. But we have failed to find ...
Original signage: on the high central frieze: "The Pelham Mission Hall". Modern signage: "Learning for Life at Morley"; "The Henry Moore...
Simon Callow did the unveiling honours. There seems to be a battle going on in Wikipedia as to whether Gaumont or Nordisk were the first...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864, American author, stayed here in 1856. L.C.C.
Diplomat. Attended Eton, 1871-7. See his brother Francis for family information. Married an American heiress Antoinette Pinchot. His job took him to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Luxemb...
Sir Francis Galton, 1822-1911, explorer, statistician, founder of eugenics, lived here for fifty years.
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