Credit for this entry to:
Bob Baker
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822, poet, lived here in 1811.
English Heritage
Shelley lodged here after he was expelled from Oxford.
W1, Poland Street, 15
The mural on the sidewall of the building includes a faux blue plaque 'The Soho Mural, Ode to the West Wind, 1989 Louise Vines for London Wall 01 737 4948'. - this Ode being a Shelley poem.
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Percy Shelley - W1
Poet. Born at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex. Had a habit of eloping wit...
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Percy Shelley - W1
This plaque records the fact that the buildings on the estate of the Wells & ...
Joan Littlewood, 1914 - 2002, theatre director.The sculpture by Philip Jackso...
This plaque contradicts English Heritage's rules about erecting only one plaq...
