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...
Faded London have done some great research on the history behind this plaque.
The poet and statesman, John Milton, was born 1608 in Bread Street. City of London
Site of the first Bethlehem Hospital 1247 - 1676. The Corporation of the City of London
Queen Victoria once rested at the Fox and Crown after her horses had bolted down the hill and she had had rather a shock. The landlord, ...
The house was demolished in 1880 and we have failed to find a picture of it. At the time this section of street may have been called Cla...
The library is the northern building, pools to the south. The Library plaque is below the bay window. The Baths plaque is on the white s...
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
The plaque is inside the school building. The photograph was taken at the unveiling.
