Showing posts with label Islington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islington. Show all posts
4 September 2013

Louis Macneice in Canonbury, Islington

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52 Canonbury Park South, Canonbury, Islington.   'LOUIS MACNEICE 1907–1963 Poet lived here 1947–1952'

George Orwell in Hampstead and Canonbury

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3 Pond Street, Hampstead, now a Pain Quotidien outlet.   'GEORGE ORWELL WRITER 1903..1950 LIVED AND WORKED IN A BOOKSHOP...
26 August 2013

Alexander Cruden in Islington

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A Mexican restaurant at 45 Camden Passage, Islington.   And on the wall:   'ALEXANDER CRUDEN 1699–1770 HUMANIST SCHOLAR ...
26 November 2012

Fenner Brockway in Islington: London #38

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  'FENNER BROCKWAY (LORD BROCKWAY) 1888 ~ LIVED HERE 1908 ~ 1910'   60 Myddelton Square, Islington. Brockway (...
18 October 2012

Kate Greenaway in Islington: London #37

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'KATE GREENAWAY 1846–1901 ––––––––––––––– CHILDRENS' [ sic ] BOOK ILLUSTRATOR AND ARTIST ––––––––––––––– LIVE...

Thomas Paine at the Angel, Islington: London #36

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The Thomas Paine obelisk was unveiled in Angel Square, Islington, in 1991 to commemorate the bicentenary of Paine's book The Rights of...
26 August 2012

Musical Coffins – Joseph Grimaldi and Charles Dibdin: London #6

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I'd already earmarked the grave of the clown Joseph Grimaldi (1778 –1837) as a must to see and then I discovered from the London Remembe...
23 August 2012

Two Mystery Females: London #3

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The excellent website 'London Remembers' by chance draws my attention to two unidentified memorials in London, of which the abov...
26 April 2012

John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, and William Blake in Bunhill Fields, London

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Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in the borough of Islington is between Bunhill Row to the west, Featherstone Street to the north, and City R...
22 April 2012

Occupy London in Finsbury Square

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Last October I posted a number of images of the Occupy Boston site in Massachusetts. It was the last of the Boston posts I made because it ...