Erection date: 3/2/2010
English Heritage
Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819 - 1861, poet, lived here, 1854 - 1859.
NW1, St Mark's Crescent, 11
The fanlight of this house carries a surprising work in stained glass depicting Mickey Mouse carrying a Union Jack and Donald Duck with the Stars and Stripes. Donald might be cutting a ribbon. Clough had American connections but can that really be the explanation? Why Disney characters?
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Arthur Hugh Clough
Poet. Born Liverpool but brought up (aged 2 - 9) in South Carolina, America,...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Arthur Hugh Clough
The exterior boasts (at least) two copies of this plaque, both positioned below what's visible in our photo.
Currently, 2011, used by the National Opera as a studio. The current building is a hall, opened in 1883, with a total of 6 plaques all on...
Herzen started his press at nearby 38 Regent Square (where Rodmell House now stands) in spring or early summer 1853. In December 1854 H...
Don Luigi Sturzo, 1871 - 1959, Italian political leader, lived here in exile from Italy between 1926 and 1933 as a guest of his friends B...
To people who don't have any prior knowledge that last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur.
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
Born in Morley, Yorkshire. Prime Minister 1908 to 1916. 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Died Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire. The Suffragettes' enemy. Film director Anthony Asquith was his son and La...
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
Opened by Frank Bearman on the site of a former vicarage. By 1906 he had purchased a nearby furniture shop, and in 1910 opened an arcade to match the larger department stores in London. It claimed ...
