George Orwell, 1930 - 1950, writer, lived here.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
Orwell lived here for 6 months in 1935 while he was working in the South End Green Bookshop and writing "Keep the Aspidstra Flying". Unveiled by Michael Foot.
NW3, Parliament Hill, 77
No 77 is the end house, with the Heath behind.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell - Parliament Hill
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell - Parliament Hill
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
Politician and journalist. Born Plymouth. Leader of the Labour party 1980-198...
Near this site stood The Curtain Theatre, 1577 - c.1627, second English publi...
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grou...
This estate is named in remembrance of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth ...
