John Betjeman in Cloth Court, London

 

Cloth Fair is a small street in the City of London, and off it is the passage Cloth Court.

A plaque records that John Betjeman once lived here.

'SIR

JOHN

BETJEMAN

1906–1984

Poet Laureate

lived here'

Betjeman loved living here, and fondly remembered the bells ringing from St Bartholomew the Great, the church on the other side of Cloth Fair.

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John Betjeman at St Pancras.

John Betjeman and St Pancras: Literary London #1

St Pancras International railway station, Euston Road, London, opened at the end of 2007, and to remember John Betjeman (1906-84), who was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death, and who had struggled so much to keep the original station when it was under threat in the 1960s, it commissioned a sculpture of him. The statue stands within the station, and was sculpted by Martin Jennings.

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John Betjeman in Cloth Court, London