English Heritage
Sir Laurence Gomme, 1853 - 1916, clerk to the London County Council, folklorist and historian, lived here, 1895 - 1909.
Site: Sir Laurence Gomme (1 memorial)
NW1, Dorset Square, 24
English Heritage
Sir Laurence Gomme, 1853 - 1916, clerk to the London County Council, folklorist and historian, lived here, 1895 - 1909.
NW1, Dorset Square, 24
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Laurence Gomme
Born 3 Cecil Street, Stepney. Clerk to the London County Council, folklorist...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Laurence Gomme
At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but then we saw that a screw has gone missing.
Sir Alec Guinness C.B.E., 1914 - 2000, actor, was born here. The Heritage Foundation
Vannessa Stephen, Vanessa Bell, 1879-1961, artist, born and lived here until 1904.
George Seferis, 1900 - 1971, poet, Nobel prizewinner, Greek ambassador, lived here.
The "A"s are certainly the anarchists' 'A' symbol but we don't understand what the hands signify. The gesture shows the thumb and first f...