Plaque

Thomas Hood - NW8

Erection date: 2001

Inscription

English Heritage
Thomas Hood, 1799 - 1845, poet, lived and died here.

Site: Thomas Hood - NW8 (1 memorial)

NW8, Finchley Road, 28

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Hood - NW8

Subjects commemorated i

Thomas Hood

Born 31 Poultry and died at home in Devonshire Lodge, London. Example: "Ben...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Hood - NW8

Created by i

English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Eadweard Muybridge - British Film Institute

Eadweard Muybridge - British Film Institute

KT2, Liverpool Road, 2

The Royal Photographic Society plaque is on the left above the wheelie-bins. The BFI plaque is on the pillar on the right.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Tachbrook - Marsh

Tachbrook - Marsh

SW1, Bessborough Street

Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...

1 subject commemorated
Edgar Wallace - EC4

Edgar Wallace - EC4

EC4, Ludgate Circus

Aged 11 Wallace was selling newspapers on this corner.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman

N1, Liverpool Road, 60

Unveiled to coincide with the start of LGBT month, by Toyah Willcox.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
George Canning - Berkeley Square

George Canning - Berkeley Square

W1, Berkeley Square, 50

Canning became Foreign Secretary whilst living here. (from modern information plaque in square.)

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

Previously viewed

Brian Yale

Brian Yale

Sculptor.  We can't find evidence that this Brian Yale is the sculptor who died on 12 October 2009.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Emily Sparkes

Emily Sparkes

Emily Carpenter, daughter of a Bromley gamekeeper, met George Sparkes while working as his housekeeper. In 1865 she became his second wife. "He is said to have educated the lively and intelligent E...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial
Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox

A celebrated politician, defender of the liberties of the individual, and rake. Heavily involved in the power play between George III and his son, the Prince Regent.   Lord Holland's uncle. Died in...

Person, Politics & Administration

4 memorials