Inscription
The H.G. Wells Society
H.G. Wells, author, 1866 - 1946, lived and worked here, 1930 - 1936.
Site: HG Wells & Arnold Bennett (2 memorials)
NW1, Baker Street, Chiltern Court
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H G Wells - Baker Street
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H. G. Wells
Born Bromley, Kent. Wrote "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "The H...
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H G Wells - Baker Street
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H G Wells - Baker Street
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Arnold Bennett - NW1
The Arnold Bennett Society Arnold Bennett, author, 1867 - 1931, lived, worked...
Nearby Memorials
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Orwell - Islington - removed
N1, Canonbury Square, 27b
May 2016: The Islington Tribute reports that the plaque has been replaced, 27 May, with one giving the correct date of habitation (1944-7...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Leonard Woolley
E5, Southwold Road, Former number 13
The plaque can be seen in our photo, at the top of the wall, above the black car. The house was lost in 1959/60 when the bridge was raise...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Toy Inn
KT8, Hampton Court Road, Hampton Court Palace
The site of the Toy Inn. An ancient hostelry of note. Built for Oliver Cromwell's troops c. 1650, rebuilt c. 1700, demolished c. 1840, wh...
7 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
June Aylward
W11, Portobello Road, 115
The London Compendium gives 1950 as the year in which Aylward opened her shop, while Wikipedia reckons "antiques dealers arrived in the l...
1 subject commemorated
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Major William Martin
See Operation Mincemeat for Major Martin's role in WW2. The body was identified in 1996 as that of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man, but the Wikipedia page puts forward a number of other possi...
1 memorial
Count Simon Woronzow
Ambassador. Born Moscow into an old aristocratic family in the Crimea. The third count Woronzow. Russian Ambassador to the UK, 1784 – 1806 (his brother Alexander, having preceded him in that role, ...
1 memorial
Christopher Marlowe
Playwright and poet, for definite. Spy? Atheist? Homosexual? Shakespeare? Baptized on 26th February at St George's Church, Canterbury. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His plays inclu...
2 memorials
Sir William Bowman
NW11, North End Way, Ivy House
In 2018 a high fence removed the Pavlova plaque from view. But at about the time the Bowman plaque was erected in 2019 the height of the ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
John Dunville VC
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens
Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...
War dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator