The Royal hunting pack used to meet annually in Maidenhead on Easter Mondays. One particularly special Royal stag, known as Ceterwayd, was protected by the crown. Riders
would endeavour to touch the animal during the hunt as a symbol of their . . . — — Map (db m231970) HM
This gateway divided the monks' private living quarters from the more public areas of the abbey. In the 1560s, Queen Elizabeth I turned the abbot's house, which stood just through the gateway, into a royal palace.
After Elizabeth's death, the . . . — — Map (db m241888) HM
This is the burial site of notable Windsor residents Charles Knight Sr. (1750-1824) and Charles Knight Jr. (1791-1873) founders of the Windsor and Eton Express newspaper.
In 1780 Charles Knight Sr. set himself up as a bookseller and printer . . . — — Map (db m230553) HM
From 1785 to 1788
Mrs Mary Delany (1700-1788)
Artist and friend of Royalty lived here in a house provided by King George III.
A frequent visitor was the novelist and diarist
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) while engaged as Keeper of the Robes . . . — — Map (db m229548) HM
Erected in 1924 by friends and admirers, this statue is a memorial to American born Charles Frohman, 1856 1915, who drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania.
A world famous theatre producer of amongst other works, Peter Pan. Frohman often visited . . . — — Map (db m228319) HM
This was the home of Randle Holme I, Mayor of Chester 1633-4. It was described as a "new building" in 1633. Four generations of the Holme family worked as Chester Heralds and Historians during the 17th century. Their painted heraldic memorial . . . — — Map (db m216254) HM
On or Near This Spot
Stood the House
in which
Sir Arthur Quiller Couch House
Renowned
In All the World
As a Freeman of the
Borough of Bodmin
Was Born on the 21st
November 1863.
21st November 1963.
( lower plaque )
This . . . — — Map (db m155012) HM
Remembering Austrian Jewish Artist
Albert Reuss
and his devoted wife
Rosa nee Feinstein
who fled Vienna to England in 1938
to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
They moved to Mousehole in 1948.
Because of Rosa's love . . . — — Map (db m206534) HM WM
1768 — 1774. In this house lived Thomas Paine, Writer and Revolutionary. ( the marker text is inscribed along the bottom of the upper storey ) — — Map (db m129782) HM
Charles Dickens
Lived in a house on this
site
1824-1829
Later to be the home of
The David Copperfield
Childrens Library
1922-1932 — — Map (db m117151) HM
FRANCES TROLLOPE (1780-1863)
author, lived at 16 Keppel Street
near this site. Her sons, the authors
THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE
(1810-1892) and
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
(1815-1882)
were born there — — Map (db m120106) HM
Friend at Hand was built in 1735 at the time of the Marylebone Road and adjoining Nash Terraces. The first ever omnibus service from Holborn stopped here. The original service of one coach each way was soon being increased to a dozen journeys per . . . — — Map (db m109813) HM
George
Padmore
1903-1959
aka Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse
International Activist
and Renowned
Pan Africanist
Lived here
1941-1957 — — Map (db m117153) HM
84 Charing Cross Road
The Booksellers
Marks & Co.
Were on this site which
became world renowned
through the book by
Helene Hanff — — Map (db m122576) HM
Percy
Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
Poet & Radical Thinker
&
Mary Shelley
1797-1851
Author of Frankenstein
lived in a house
on this site
1815-1816 — — Map (db m116106) HM
Indian Poet, Philosopher and
First Nobel Laureate from Asia
Unveiled by
HRH The Prince of Wales
7th July 2011
Sculpted by Shenda Amery
Installed by The Tagore Centre UK — — Map (db m145205) HM
In this house lived
in 1851
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet and Painter
and from 1856 to 1859
William Morris
Poet and Artist
and
Sir Edward C. Burne-Jones
Painter — — Map (db m111362) HM
Sir
James
Matthew
Barrie
Bart., O.M.
1860-1937
Novelist, Dramatist
and creator of
'Peter Pan'
lived in a house
on this site
1885-1888 — — Map (db m110376) HM
Bloomsbury
Group members
Virginia Woolf
Duncan Grant
Adrian Stephen
Leonard Woolf &
John Maynard
Keynes
lived in a house
on this site
1911-1912 — — Map (db m111130) HM
The Last Goon Show of All
starring
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan
& Harry Secombe
was recorded by the BBC
in this Theatre on
30th April 1972 — — Map (db m115384) HM
The pub dates to the late Victorian era, and was much frequented by artists and writers before the war, when it was known as "The Baby's Bottom", perhaps because it was once painted pink. It was originally a Taylor Walker brewery pub (the original . . . — — Map (db m109267) HM
Virginia Woolf
lived in a house formerly on the south side of
Tavistock Square from 1924 to 1939 where most of her
greatest novels were written and published
Then one day walking round Tavistock Square I made up,
as I sometimes make . . . — — Map (db m121053) HM
The square is in Bloomsbury, the medical and academic quarter of London with its historical architecture, noteworthy monuments, special literary interests and international peace associations. Once part of the estate of the Dukes of Bedford and . . . — — Map (db m120835) HM
[Inset within a reproduction of the front cover of All The Year Round is the marker text:]
Saturday, 30th April, 1859
Charles Dickens, pen name
"Boz", operated out of
the Cheshire Cheese Pub
while producing his journal
"All . . . — — Map (db m111228) HM
Elia
To the immortal memory of
Charles Lamb
Perhaps the most beloved name
in English literature who
was a bluecoat boy here for
7 years
B. 1775 D. 1834
[Lower panel:]
This memorial was moved here in . . . — — Map (db m111337) HM
Edgar Wallace
Reporter
Born London 1875
Died Hollywood 1932
Founder Member of the
Company of Newspaper Makers
He knew wealth & poverty, yet had
walked with kings & kept his bearing.
Of his talents he gave lavishly
to authorship . . . — — Map (db m118264) HM
Queenhithe Mosaic
A timeline displaying the remarkable layers of history from Roman times to Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee
Unveiled on 18th November 2014
by
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Alan Yarrow
Conceived and facilitated by . . . — — Map (db m117878) HM
T.P. O’Connor
Journalist
& Parliamentarian
1848 – 1929
His pen could lay bare
the bones of a book or
the soul of a statesman
in a few vivid lines. — — Map (db m118265) HM
The name Golden Square would appear to originate from Gelding Close which referred to the land being used for the grazing of horses. A building licence was granted for the land in 1673 and development proceeded initiated by two speculators, John . . . — — Map (db m111770) HM
