Established as a non-profit organisation, it was originally set up to promote the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe and to encourage and promote old and new artistic interpretations of his works. It possesses over 15,000 articles, including first editions, which relate to Poe.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague
Poe Unveiled by Steven Berkoff on 4 June 2011. The Flicker Club The Edgar All...
Edgar Allan Poe's maternal grandparents performed as actors at this theatre, ...
From the website: "We promote the music of Benjamin Britten and his work with singer Peter Pears, and are based at the home they shared, The Red House in Aldeburgh." Britten and Pears lived here f...
Noel Falconer Filmer is 2nd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 13 December 1897, the seventh of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
Assistant to Leslie Palmer in the 1970s when the modern Notting Hill Carnival was set up. Source: Caribbean and Co.
From the website: "QPARA was established by local residents in 1973 as an entirely voluntary organisation keen to preserve the integrity of the conservation area … and that’s what we still do, but ...
Playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born Leeds. First popular success was 'Beyond the Fringe' at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore. Since then...
Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.
The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have stood on a number of sites in this vicinity. The first prison in 1127 was a cellar in the Palace of the Bishop of Winchester, and the...
The parish of St James Piccadilly erected a workhouse on Poland Street in 1725 for the able-bodied poor. This was taken over by the newly-formed Westminster Union in 1868. The workhouse closed in o...
Rock band. Members: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
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