See Doves Bindery. Our picture shows the only remaining piece of the Doves type, or did until 2015, when some more was retrieved - see Doves Bindery.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Doves Press
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Doves Bindery and Press
Initially (ha-ha) we were puzzled by the letters at the bottom of this plaque...
Thomas Cobden-Sanderson
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1840-1922, founded the Doves Bindery and Doves...
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G. K. Chesterton
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Best known for the Father Brown stories. He often wrote about religion and in 1922 converted to Roman Catholicism. In l...
4 memorials
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
Mrs Jemima Luke
Writer of hymns and religious studies. Born Jemima Thompson in Islington. She planned to do missionary work in India, but illness prevented her from doing so. She married the Reverend Samuel Luke, ...
1 memorial
Max Beerbohm
Caricaturist and writer. Born 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington. In the Oscar Wilde circle of friends. He became successful and famous at aged 24, but never rich. Half brother and cousin to He...
2 memorials
George Gissing
Goerge Robert Gissing. Novelist, best known for ‘New Grub Street’ about the hack writers who were concentrated in Grub Street, EC2. In 1830 Grub Street was renamed Milton Street; in WW2 it was badl...
3 memorials