Erection date: /10/2003
English Heritage
William Roberts, 1895 - 1980, artist, lived, worked and died here, 1946 - 1980.
Unveiled by Alan Bennett in 2003. Bennett, an early member of the William Roberts Society, has lived in the area a long time and once accidentally bumped into Roberts prompting the artist to "let forth a volley of abuse".
NW1, St Marks Crescent, 14
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Roberts
Artist. Founder member of the short-lived British Vorticist group and a WW1...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Roberts
Playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born Leeds. First popular succes...
Number 89 is the house with the white porch on the left of the photograph, and number 85 is the white house with the green door. Hidden ...
School founded by Angela Burdett-Coutts in 1849 and a member of that family still (2016) sits on the governing board. William had died ju...
St Stephens was erected in 1847-9, designed by Benjamin Ferrey, and funded by Angela Burdett-Coutts. The small south chapel of 1904 is v...
See Royal Polytechnic Institute for some of the history of this building.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
