Erection date: 1984
Inscription
Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, novelist, lived here.
Greater London Council
Site: Joseph Conrad (1 memorial)
SW1, Gillingham Street, 17
Conrad moved here following his discharge from the German Hospital.
2021: The house is for sale so the agents have done some digging: "It once served as a boarding house where Conrad shared quarters with a printer’s compositor and a diamond merchant’s clerk, among other occupants, in 1891, according to a 2011 biography of the writer titled “The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad,” by John Stape."
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
