Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870, novelist, lived here.
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WC1, Doughty Street, 48
This building is often said to be Dickens' only surviving London home. There is at least one other: 10 Norfolk Street, now 22 Cleveland Street. The Doughty Street house was purchased by the Dickens Fellowship in 1925 and houses The Charles Dickens Museum.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Dickens Museum - blue plaque
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Dickens Museum - blue plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Spratt's charming terrier-shaped logo is reproduced twice on this plaque.
The two plaques appear to be back to back; the outside one being the foundation stone and the inside one the opening stone. To the left,...
The foundation stone to which this plaque refers reads "National Provident Institution for Mutual Life Assurance. This stone was laid on ...
This plaque was unveiled exactly 100 years after the deeds that won Dimmer the VC.
Discovering London took great delight in proving that the "cells" in the pub next door, the Viaduct, are, contrary to urban myth, nothing...
After WW2 Berlin was divided into 4 sectors, controlled by Britain, France, the USA and the Soviet Union respectively. Berlin was inside East Germany which was also controlled by the Soviets. Thi...
Joyce Grenfell, 1910 - 1979, entertainer and writer, lived here in flat no.8, 1957 - 1979. English Heritage
The modern information board at the entrance to the gardens gives the following: "No. 4 (built 1728): Home of the Astor family for thirty...
The stone was erected on the base of one of Baird's television masts. Our picture is taken from the History of Kingsbury Manor website wh...
The mural featured a portrait of Wells and pictorial references to some of his works, particularly 'The War of the Worlds'. Over the year...
