Erection date: 5/7/2016
Sir George Grove, 1820 - 1900, promoter of musical knowledge, lived here.
English Heritage
SE26, Westwood Hill, 14
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir George Grove - Westwood Hill
Writer on music. Born at Thurlow Lodge, 74 Thurlow Terrace, Clapham. Although...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir George Grove - Westwood Hill
Birthplace in 1873 of Dr. Alfred Salter, Quaker and first Labour M.P. for Bermondsey. A tireless crusader against sickness and poverty.
In Salcombe House near this site, lived Arthur Morrison (1863 - 1945) author, and writer on Japanese art. Loughton Town Council
“Carmen” were the equivalent of today’s delivery drivers.
The plaque is on the back of the building, visible from a footpath.
Regent's Park Lit details how Bowen set scenes in her novels in Regent's Park, which she could see out the window as she wrote.
