Dr Samuel Johnson, author, lived here. B. 1709. D. 1784.
{In the border, interleaved with the links of a chain, are the letters of:}
Erected by the Society of Arts
EC4, Gough Square, 17, Dr Johnson's House
The house is a museum, open to the public and contains many pictures of Johnson and his friends. The Barber plaque is on the railings below the Johnson one.
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Samuel Johnson's house
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
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Samuel Johnson's house
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee Hou...
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Samuel Johnson's house
Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painters, Vladimir and Elizabeth Polunin.
{Between the depictions of two ships:} St. Nicholas Church Deptford, the ancient parish church of Deptford, a church has stood on this s...
Palace Theatre - Stage Entrance The world's greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors.
Photographed and numbered from north to south. A nearby information board: On your right is the old Roman road to the south coast (now t...
David Lloyd George, Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, 1863 - 1945, Prime Minister, lived here. English Heritage
Designed by Ernest Schaufelberg, this was the first London theatre to be built after the end of WW1, and one of the first buildings in London to to use ferro-concrete construction. Built on the sit...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels and she figures on our sister site, BrusselsRemembers.
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