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...
Novelist, Antonia White, (Eirene Botting), 1899 - 1980, lived here, 1899 - 1921.
The left-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
Thanks go to our French consultant, John Hartley, for the translation. We believe the text comes from a speech made by de Gaulle, after,...
This is where Faraday, aged 14, was indentured for 7 years to the bookseller, George Riebau, at what was then 2 Blandford Street. He star...
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