George Orwell in Hampstead and Canonbury

3 Pond Street, Hampstead, now a Pain Quotidien outlet.

 

'GEORGE ORWELL

WRITER 1903..1950

LIVED AND WORKED IN

A BOOKSHOP ON THIS SITE

1934..1935..'

 

The bookshop was Booklovers' Corner run by Francis and Myfanwy Westrope. Orwell used his experience here for parts of his novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). He wrote about his time at Booklovers' Corner in the essay 'Bookshop Memories' (1936). Unfortunately, vandals have chipped off Orwell's face on the plaque.

 

Orwell was forced to move out of Pond Road early in 1935, and came to a flat here, 77 Parliament Hill, next to Hampstead Heath.

 

'GEORGE ORWELL

1903–1950

WRITER

LIVED HERE'

 

In June 1935 he moved to Kentish Town (see my link at the bottom).

 

And many years later, in Canonbury Square, Canonbury, Islington:

 

'GEORGE

ORWELL

1903–1950

NOVELIST & ESSAYIST

LIVED AT 27B

1945'

 

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George Orwell: 'Bookshop Memories'
George Orwell in Kentish Town