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52 Tavistock Square

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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...

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Virginia Woolf bust

Bronze copy of the bust of Woolf sculpted by Stephen Tomlin in 1931, on a fiv...

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Hyde Park Estate

Hyde Park Estate

We don't know for sure that the HPEA is the "Hyde Park Estate" that erected the Dearmer plaque but it's the best candidate that we could find.

Group, Community / Clubs, Property

1 memorial
Foxgrove Road

Foxgrove Road

Road in Beckenham, Kent. David Bowie lived at number 24 in Flat 1 from March to October 1969. The photograph is of Seychelle Court which is now number 24. We can find no mention of Bowie living in ...

Place, Property

1 memorial
P. F. Story

P. F. Story

Surveyor active 1937. A 1927 letter gives him the rank 'Lt Col.'. In a 1918 military list for the 20th (Light) Division he appears as 'Major P.F. STORY, D.S.O.'. As we researched the Bingham Court...

Person, Property

1 memorial
Walter Lawrence & Son Ltd

Walter Lawrence & Son Ltd

Building firm active in 1935.

Group, Property

2 memorials
W. Phillips & Son

W. Phillips & Son

Builder of 1952 rebuilding of Haberdasher Place.

Group, Property

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Giovanni Labadini
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Russian Orthodox Church - WW1

Russian Orthodox Church - WW1

SW7, Ennismore Gardens, Russian Orthodox Church, 67

These two featured plaques are inside the porch so we had to use flash, hence the slightly odd photos. Designed by Lewis Vulliamy, built...

War dead | WW1
29 subjects commemorated
Charles Hindley

Charles Hindley

Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire from 1835 until his death. When he fell ill, his doctor, Robert Bentley Todd, prescribed 'Six pints of brandy to be drunk in 72 hours' as a cu...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Mary Watts

Mary Watts

Born as Mary Seton Fraser Tytler in India but brought up in Scotland. 1886 married G. F. Watts. Co-founded the Compton Potters' Arts Guild and the Arts & Crafts Guild in Compton, Surrey. There ...

Person, Craft / Design, India, Scotland

37 memorials
Liberal Party

Liberal Party

Founded at a meeting in Almack's / Willis's Rooms, when 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met to agree on a strategy to remove Lord Derby's Conservative government. The Guardian re...

Group, Politics & Administration

1 memorial