Erection date: 1918
Thomas Gray, poet, was born in a house on this site.
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day". {first line of 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’}
1716 - 1771
{Below the relief:}
F. W. Pomeroy, Sc. 1917
EC3, Cornhill, 39
The two plaques closest to the camera both read "39, The Union Discount Company of London plc". Grey's plaque is at the same level, further to the left.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Gray
Poet. Born Cornhill. Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Gray
Born London. His London work includes the 1906 Lady Justice on the dome of th...
As far as we can discover this location has no connection with Baird, other than its (not great) proximity to Alexandra Palace where the ...
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708 - 1778, Prime Minister, lived in a house on this site.
The Corporation of the City of London Site of the Collegiate Church of St Martin, demolished 1548.
These letters are incised into the pavement area between the Queen Anne statue and the steps to St Pauls. Queen Victoria visited St Paul...
We have numbered the foundation stones from left to right.
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography. The quotation comes from Keats’ epic poem "Fall of Hyperion. A Dream", 1819.
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