Lived in by Leonard and Virginia Woolf 1924-39. Our picture source also has some photos of the interior, and explains that, even though they have moved out, the destruction of this house affected Virginia badly.
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Virginia & Leonard Woolf - Tavistock Square
Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941, Leonard Woolf, 1880 - 1969, writers and publishe...
Virginia Woolf bust
Bronze copy of the bust of Woolf sculpted by Stephen Tomlin in 1931, on a fiv...
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Charlton House
Regarded as the best-preserved Jacobean house in Greater London. It was built by the crown to house Sir Adam Newton and his royal charge, Prince Henry, the son of King James I. The interior feature...
1 memorial
Devonshire House
Built for the third Duke of Devonshire in about 1740 and used as the London residence for his family until its demolition in 1924. The garden to the north stretched as far as Lansdowne House. The...
1 memorial
Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust
Housing action trusts were non-departmental public bodies, set up to redevelop some of the poorest council housing estates in England's inner-city suburbs.
1 memorial
The Grange
It consisted of two eighteenth century red-brick houses. Famous occupants were, Samuel Richardson, the writer and printer, from 1738 to 1754, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones from 1867 until his death in...
1 memorial
Tottenhall Manor
Dates back to at least the 15th century. Purchased by Charles Fitzroy (later Lord Southampton) and in 1761 he commissioned a survey of the land contained. It seems to have encompassed a large area...
1 memorial
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L. Benstead
Member of the staff at the Public Record Office. Andrew Behan has researched Benstead: Private Leonard Richard Smith Benstead, M.M., was born on 6 July 1890 in Soho, Westminster, the eldest of the...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Normandy Landings / D-Day
The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in Operation Overlord during WW2. The 'D' in D-Day doesn't stand for anything as it was used as a substitute for the actua...
23 memorials
Chelsea Arts Club
Started in 1890 when a group of friends began meeting informally. At least one of these friends, Whistler, was dissatisfied with the club of which he was already a member, the Arts Club. They were ...
1 memorial
Holly Lodge wall - B
N6, Holly Lodge Gardens
These plaques seem to relate to the maintenance and changing ownership of the grounds of "The Holly Lodge". The house (which was between ...
1 subject commemorated
Croydon Palace
The summer residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury. The Manor of Croydon was connected with Canterbury from at least the late Saxon period, and records of buildings date back to before 960. The ...
1 memorial
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