Bust

Bermondsey Library - 1 - Homer

We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon it's Homer - he's often shown with a beanie hat.

Site: Bermondsey Library - key stone busts (7 memorials)

SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre

The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about this building and also fails to identify number 5. The building was designed in 1890-2 by John Johnson and opened by John Lubbock. The library closed in 1989.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 1 - Homer

Subjects commemorated i

Homer

Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhe...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 1 - Homer

Also at this site i

Bermondsey Library - 2 - Shakespeare

Bust

Bermondsey Library - 3 - Victoria

Poor dear, we've seen her looking better.

Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton

Bust

Bermondsey Library - 5 - unknown

The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential ...

Bermondsey Library - foundation stone

This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...

Show all 6

See other memorials in the area

Nearby Memorials

Colonial Office - B18 - Edward III

SW1, Whitehall, Foreign Office

Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

View on map

Ernest Bevin bust

SE1, Queen Elizabeth Street

Unveiled by Bermondsey Mayor Geoghegan, Chairman of the statue committee. The committee secretary was Griggs. The list of Creators includ...

1 subject commemorated, 15 creators

View on map

Drill Hall - head 6 - Crimean soldier

W1, Chenies Street, Drill Hall

In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...

View on map

Duchess of Kent

N1, Prebend Street, 32, Duchess of Kent pub

We identified which particular Duchess of Kent is represented by finding the painting on which the portrait is based at baltyra but the ...

1 subject commemorated

View on map

Caxton Hall - head 6 - Chaucer

SW1, Caxton Street, 10, Caxton Hall

This could equally well be Caxton (they are both always shown with this headgear, full beard and moustache) but the lack of sideburns see...

1 subject commemorated

View on map

Previously viewed

H. Baker

Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

Handel - lost

W1, Brook Street, 25

Seeing a plaque in this 1970s photo of Brook Street at Spitalfields LIfe we investigated and identified the buildings in the photo as num...

1 subject commemorated

View on map

Islington Tunnel - east - lost

N1, Grand Union Canal near Colebrooke Row

Two points about the wording on this plaque. 'Navies' were the men who built the canals which were known as 'navigations'. They moved a...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

View on map

Royal Hospital School

SE10, Romney Road, National Maritime Museum

The buildings of this museum were occupied until 1933 by the Royal Hospital School. Founded in 1694 for the sons of seamen of the Royal ...

1 subject commemorated

View on map

Burgess Park designers - 1979 air crash

SE5, Burgess Park, Cobourg Road

Geoffrey Mills was the pilot - see his page for more details. Our information comes from the British Newspaper Archive: the Birmingham Da...

6 subjects commemorated

View on map