Erection date: 25/6/1998
This building was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, 25 June 1998.
This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
All the sculptures are inside the main building.
See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Opening of the British Library
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening i...
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Opening of the British Library
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
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Opening of the British Library
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903 - 1950, lived and worked here as senior master of the former Hawthorn High School for Boys, April ...
When this plaque was unveiled the wall was part of the Public Record Office. It is now King's College Library.
This plaque is presumably based on some early references to loriners working at this location.
72 Farm Lane This building was constructed over market gardens in 1889 as two-storey stabling for the London Road Car Company, operators ...
"The munificence of his benefactions" - we just don't write plaques like that anymore.
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