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...
From English Heritage: Beckett lived here "for seven months in 1934 while undergoing psychoanalysis (paid for by his mother following the...
English Heritage Anthony Salvin, 1799 - 1881, architect, lived here.
In 1969 Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen but apparently this had no effect on his status and so this plaque is still technically corr...
Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her husband John Middleton Murry, 1889 - 1957, critic, lived here.
The plaque was scheduled for unveiling on 5 May 2020, exactly 100 years since Harris had become a member of ICAEW, but the Covid pandemic...
The only carillon in London. Dictionary definition of 'Carillon': a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either from a set of keys and pedals or mechanically.
Represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession. It has over 120,000 members in 140 countries, working across industries such as railway, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, energy...
Planted in grateful memory of George Levy, MBE, Chairman of The Friends of Kenwood, 1978 - 1996.
We can't find proof that her route was as specified: from Queen Hithe (at the river, just east of Southwark Bridge) to St Michael’s Churc...
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