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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52 Tavistock Square
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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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Edward Goulding
3rd son of Henry and Agne Goulding. Married Elizabeth Lacraft in 1601.
1 memorial
Canonbury House, Alwyne Villas
From British History Online: A house existed here in 1373. We think this was on the site of today's Canonbury Tower, just to the north of today's Canonbury House. "From c. 1770 John Dawes replaced ...
1 memorial
Bow Road Railway Station
The authoritative-looking picture source website gives the date of opening as 4 April 1892 (contradicting the plaque) and the closing date as 1949 for passengers and 1962 finally.
1 memorial
Sayes Court
Leased by John Evelyn from Charles II in 1663 and trashed by Peter the Great in 1698. The picture source gives a full history of the house which was badly damaged in WW2 and demolished in 1947. T...
1 memorial
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Ivy Molly Bolton
Known as Molly. Bolton joined the Fabian Society in 1916, and became private secretary to Beatrice and Sidney Webb. She then became secretary of the Fabian Local Government and Research Bureau, an...
1 memorial
Donald W. Insall Associates
A firm of chartered architects, historic building and planning consultants. Donald Insall was knighted in 2010.
5 memorials
Southwark Council
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...
91 memorials
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to...
7 memorials
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