Greater London Council
Thomas de Quincy, 1785 - 1859, wrote "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in this house.
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
WC2, Tavistock Street, 36
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eate...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Dr A Gordon Signy, 1905 - 1972, pioneering pathologist & international fencer, lived here 1955 - 1972. London Borough of Islington Is...
The gray plaque is above the entrance to the windmill museum; the brown plaque is at the centre of the four windows towards the left of o...
English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.
George Cruikshank, artist, lived here, from 1850 to 1878. B: Sept.27th 1792. D: Feb.1st 1878. {Almost hidden in the decorative border:}...
The British Pathe commentator says the plaque will eventually be sent to Russia. Some people are carrying a large banner reading 'Quiet N...
Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in 2009 on roads in Britain. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Many of the drivers o...
