Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1956)
''Is there anybody there? said the traveller knocking on the moonlit door'.
Walter De La Mare, poet and novelist, lived in the Penge area for 25 years.
Penge Heritage Trail
Bromley
SE20, Green Lane, 46
The plaque is in the pavement between the bike stands and the decorative post.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Walter de la Mare - Green Lane
Poet and writer. Born 83 Maryon Road, Charlton. Best known poem "The Listener...
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Walter de la Mare - Green Lane
Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
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Andrew Motion was commissioned to write a poem for this garden. It is cut (in a very interesting way) into the low concrete wall around ...
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This memorial to the arch is on the lawn beside the approach road to the manor house.
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