Greater London Council
Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859, American writer, lived here.
Site: Washington Irving (1 memorial)
W1, Argyll Street, 8
Greater London Council
Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859, American writer, lived here.
W1, Argyll Street, 8
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Washington Irving
American writer who is best known for his short stories 'The Legend of Sleepy...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Washington Irving
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
Eliot moved here in December 1880 with her new husband, John Cross, and died here just 3 weeks later.
Adam Faith (Terry Nelhams), 1940 - 2003, singer & actor born in a house on this site, destroyed by a V1 bomb in 1944. Ealing Council ...
Sir William Reid Dick, 1878 - 1961, sculptor, worked here in Studio 3, 1910 - 1914. English Heritage
Bartlett Surgeon Accoucheur {French for obstetrician surgeon}
Second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and inherited the title on his death in 1974. Grandson of George V, and son of Princess Alice. Patron of the Silver Jubilee Walkway Trust. 1975 honou...
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was Assistant Manager of the Abbey Wood branch in June 1912. Probably a cousin of the RACS architect Frank Bethell.
The 1905 building is by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards. All the extensive decorative sculpture work is by Henry Poole and has a nautica...
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