Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 - 1941, Indian poet, stayed here in 1912.
London County Council
Tagore rented the house for about 3 weeks or a few months (depending on source) on one of him many visits to Britain.
NW3, Vale of Health, 3, Villas on the Heath
2017: There are plans to acquire this house and convert it into a museum-memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Tagore
Bengali poet and philosopher. First non-European Nobel Laureate. Born into a ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Tagore
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Eisenhower's office was the corner room on the first floor (for our American friends - this is the floor above the ground floor). Discov...
Lane and Orpen were distant cousins and rented this house together in 1907. The Lane plaque is above, Orpen below, with a little window b...
The Rose and Crown - one of Wimbledon's oldest public houses, dating from the early 17th century. It was a starting point for stage coach...
Greater London Council Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
The Richmond plaque can be seen in our photo, between the lamppost and the two blackboards.
The wonderful A London Inheritance have a 1982 photo of the area before the current buildings were erectred. It shows the crane and LEP'...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington. First visited Egypt in 1873 and co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1882. Never married and bequeathed her collect...
Member of the Ealing District Council in 1899. Bear Alley has a full biography of Groome by Robert J Kirkpatrick, with many illustrations: ""W.H.C. Groome was one of the most prolific children’s b...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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