{Carved on the wall to the left of the front door:}
The Lord Mayor's National Thanksgiving Fund, 1950, gave and endowed this building.
Carved on the wall to the right of the front door:
"William Goodenough House, 1957
Goodenough College"
WC1, Mecklenburgh Square, Goodenough House
This building replaced houses destroyed or badly damaged by WW2 bombs, one of which forced Virginia Woolf to vacate.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Goodenough House
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Goodenough House
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Morton Hotel is part of Imperial London Hotels Ltd who own the building.
Hablot Knight Browne alias 'Phiz', 1815 - 1882, illustrator of Dickens's novels lived here 1874 - 1880. English Heritage
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716 - 1783, landscape architect lived here, 1764 - 1783. English Heritage
Born Cheltenham. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Cheltenham honours Wilson with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.
Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...
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A railway company which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in anticipation of the opening of its London extension. It was eventually grouped in...
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