George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, novelist & political essayist lived here.
W11, Portobello Road, 22
Orwell was in lodgings here for a brief period: from late 1927 to Spring 1928, when he moved to Paris.
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 - W11
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Prior to every development in Central London MOLA gets the opportunity for archaeological investigations. Here in 1995 they found, amon...
We have visited this area many times, but only recently noticed this well-hidden little plaque.
The names, given on the other plaque, are not Chinese (being Smith, etc.) so by "Chinese members" they must mean something like "working ...
Erected by Camden London Borough Council Peggy Duff, 1910 - 1981, first General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and lo...
Dr Silverman's patients in Camden were similarly moved to raised a plaque.
From the parish of St Thomas in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a rifleman aged 27.
Geoffrei Hugh Austen-Cartmell was born on 30 October 1895, the second of the three children of James Austen Cartmell (1862-1921) and Mary Affleck Cartmell née Peacock (1860-1906). Civil Registratio...
Cycling activist. He was known for supporting community and environmental projects in Southwark. For a time he managed school building projects for Southwark Council, before becoming manager of Sur...
A nearby pub sign says "the building next door, Mary Queen of Scots House was built in 1905. The statue of Mary Stuart a romantic idea of...
Gordon of Greenwich loved here. ***** English Hedonists Mad in England
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