Greater London Council
Thomas de Quincy, 1785 - 1859, wrote "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in this house.
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
WC2, Tavistock Street, 36
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eate...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Sir Learie Constantine, 1901 - 1971, West Indian cricketer and statesman, lived here 1949 - 1954. English Heritage
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
A compositor arranged type ready for printing, by manually putting individual metal letters into the required sequence.
There are 8 Courts running off the north side of this section of Fleet Street and on the ground at the entrance to each Court is a plaque...
Formerly The (Regent Street) Polytechnic. The plaque for the first cinema is inside the hall and is not normally accessible except when t...
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 14. Buried in grave 2 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them