Polygon Road was the site of The Polygon - a fifteen sided building of 32 houses situated around a garden. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft lived at No 29 for a time and their daughter, later to become Mary Shelley, was born here. Charles Dickens lodged at No 17 some years later when the area was in decline (in 1828). The Polygon was demolished in 1890.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Polygon
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Somers Town Mural
This mural was commissioned by the GLC in 1980 and moved to this site by St P...
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Laing Homes
A building group which was a division of John Laing plc (a company which was founded in the 1840s). It was eventually purchased by the Wimpey group. 2025: This image came from New Homes for Sale i...
Powell and Moya
Architects. The two partners were: Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (1921 – 2003), usually known as Philip Powell, and John Hidalgo Moya (1920 – 1994), sometimes known as Jacko Moya, born in America...
Councillor A. C. Shearing
Architect of the British Legion Hornsey in 1929.
Liam O'Connor
Architect, specialising in memorials, see the practice's website.
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Charles Robertson
Worked in the civil service, 1902 - 1925, in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. At the 1931 London County Council election, Robertson was elected for the Labour Party in Islington East. He lost th...
Person, Education, Politics & Administration, Egypt, Scotland
Giltspur Street compter
EC1, Giltspur Street
Discovering London took great delight in proving that the "cells" in the pub next door, the Viaduct, are, contrary to urban myth, nothing...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Norwood
SE25, Dagnall Park, 30
This was the first plaque erected to a black person, in 1975.
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