Illustrator. Born at West Croydon. An epilepsy sufferer, she was housebound for most of her youth. In this time she showed a talent for drawing, and the first of her many books 'Flower Fairies of the Spring' was published in 1923. Died at Storrington, Sussex.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Cicely Mary Barker
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Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...
Artist and architect. Born Chile. We can'f find a picture of him so we are using one of his extraordinary art works instead.
Painter. Registered as a conscientious objector in WW1. Died at the Park Hotel near Malvern. See his wife, Laura, for more details.
Architects, Arthur and Christian. Their partnership was based in the East India Dock Road, and they designed many of London's workhouses. Active 1892.
The BBC (who else?) have a good post about their time here. Pity this plaque had no room to mention John Logie Baird.
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