Plaque

J B Priestley

Inscription

English Heritage
J.B. Priestley, 1894 - 1984, novelist, playwright and essayist, lived here.

Site: Priestley & Coleridge (2 memorials)

N6, The Grove, 3

2011 - Kate Moss is reportedly moving to this address.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
J B Priestley

Subjects commemorated i

J.B. Priestley

Novelist, playwright and essayist. Wrote "When we are married" and "An Inspe...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
J B Priestley

Created by i

English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
J B Priestley

Also at this site i

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - N6

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - N6

In 1816 to help cure his laudanum addiction Coleridge moved in with his docto...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Richard Norman Shaw - SW1

Richard Norman Shaw - SW1

SW1, Victoria Embankment, Scotland Yard

Bob Speel informs that this roundel was designed by Lethaby and modelled by Thornycroft.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

W2, Palace Court, 47, Spanish Catholic Chaplaincy

The scaffolding next door is the result of a major fire there in January 2013. It is a large property which was/is "under refurbishment"...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
PP - 3S - Garnish

PP - 3S - Garnish

EC1, Edward Street

This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Festival of Britain - N16

Festival of Britain - N16

N16, Somerford Grove

The Somerford Estate has 12 blocks and we believe the award was for the whole estate, not just this block. The architect and landscape d...

1 subject commemorated
Duke of Edinburgh visit

Duke of Edinburgh visit

NW1, Cumberland Market, Patterdale

Our researches show that when a Mrs I.M.C. Pigg stood for election as a Labour councillor in 1946 she failed to gain the necessary suppor...

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators

Previously viewed

W. Brinklow

W. Brinklow

R.F.N. in the Rifle Brigade. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Rifleman William James Brinklow was born in 1898 in Hampstead, a son of William James Brinklow and Ada Brinklow, sister to J. Ben...

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Politician.  Born Nottinghamshire.  An albino, he suffered poor and deteriorating eyesight so emigrated to Australia  in 1841 in the hope of making a quick fortune before going blind.  There he est...

Person, Politics & Administration, Australia

1 memorial
Match tax abandoned

Match tax abandoned

I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches.  The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of C...

Event, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Armillary sphere London Uni.External System

Armillary sphere London Uni.External System

WC1, Torrington Square

For other armillary spheres see Wolff.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators