Site: Wimbledon Library (2 memorials)
SW19, Wimbledon Hill Road, Wimbledon Library
Shakespeare to the left, Milton to the right.
SW19, Wimbledon Hill Road, Wimbledon Library
Shakespeare to the left, Milton to the right.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wimbledon Library - Milton
Poet, essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. Born in the house called...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wimbledon Library - Milton
This gentleman and his lady friend may just be anonymous, off-the-shelf heads but they look like portraits to us.
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon it's Homer - he's often shown with a beanie hat.
The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...
Above the central window, this cameo-type profile bust of the King is draped in ribbons and swags of oak and laurel leaves. Carved by Ros...
We think this visage probably represents an ancient sage, probably Greek or Roman: Socrates, Homer, etc., but which one?
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
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