This building was used as a hotel, 'The Pilgrim' until about 1930. It was demolished following WW2 bomb damage. The photo shows the east side and Byron's window was on the first floor, fourth from the left.
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Albergo del Pellegrino
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Byron in Bologna
The creators of this plaque have copied the two paragraphs from the original ...
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Great fire of Tooley Street
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Corporation of the City of London
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Hay's Wharf
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Joseph Hardcastle
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Sebastian Earl
We really don't know if the Sebastian Earl who unveiled the stone at the Hornsey YMCA is the rowing businessman with the same name but the dates look right and it's an unusual name. Our colleague, ...
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