SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about this building and also fails to identify number 5. The building was designed in 1890-2 by John Johnson and opened by John Lubbock. The library closed in 1989.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton
Poet, essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. Born in the house called...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon i...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential ...
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
We are reasonbly happy with our identifcation of this head.
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon it's Homer - he's often shown with a beanie hat.
These roundels, below the second floor windows, are numbered from the left. Under other windows are: "T. C. C.", "1868", "H.H.". Number ...
The spaces between the first and second floor windows carry carved brick panels, one in each of the seven bays. Purely decorative panels ...
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