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...
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“Carmen” were the equivalent of today’s delivery drivers.
Palace Theatre - Stage Entrance The world's greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors.
St James's Square The first stone of this square was laid 1st Novr. 1847.
This bust is fixed to the wall of the building in the garden seen in the picture.
The corridor with the two busts, plaque and glass display area is on the ground floor of the Hunter wing.
Commissioned to create a WW1 memorial to the Machine Gun Corps Derwent Wood produced a statue of David (post-Goliath decapitation). The o...
There is a clock dial on each of the four facades, and they are all working - August 2004 anyway. Above each dial is inscribed "1895". B...
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