Plaque

Orwell - Kentish Town

Erection date: 1980

Inscription

George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, novelist and political essayist, lived here.
Greater London Council 

Orwell lodged here for a short time (August 1935 - January 1936), during which he had a punch-up with another lodger who came home drunk. It is possible that Orwell himself was not entirely sober.

He shared the top floor flat with friends and fellow writers Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall and while living there wrote most of his 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying. His room was top floor, back.

Source: Ham & High.

Site: Orwell - Kentish Town (1 memorial)

NW5, Lawford Road, 50

2024: OnLondon reported on a disagreement between English Heritage and the Orwell Society: "... about the inspiration for Willowbed Road, the north west London street where Gordon Comstock, the stubborn, self-pitying idealist of {Keep the Aspidistra Flying} lives at the start of the story: the former claims it was 50 Lawford Road ...; the latter says it was Willoughby Road in Belsize Park."

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