Erection date: 22/4/2015
George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, Sir Stephen Spender, 1919 - 1995, wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here, 1940 - 1948.
Marchmont Association
University of London
WC1, Lansdowne Terrace, 2
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling...
Literary critic and writer. Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
Poet. Born 47 Campden House Court, Kensington. The Evening Standard carries...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
Stanley Hall & Baths This building was erected by E. H. Blunt, 1884.
High on the front, at the left is the Sunday Schools plaque, and on the right the Memorial School plaque. The McArthur stone is low on th...
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
Our photo is taken from the east. In the background you can see the inside of the retained arched stone entrance to The Colonnade from G...
Born Sussex. Founder of the Women’s Police Force, in WW1. Organizing Secretary of the animal campaigning organisation the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. This opposed vivisection, camp...
Served in the Royal Navy in 1944-8. Entered business and was the founding member of a highly successful business partnership that took over National Car Parks, which became the largest car parking...
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