Plaque

Brittain & Holtby

Inscription

English Heritage
Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970
Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935
writers and reformers, lived here.

WC1, Doughty Street, 58

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Brittain & Holtby

Vera Mary Brittain was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire the daught...

Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Bri...

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Brittain & Holtby

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

The plaque is below the window to the left of the ornate entrance. Presumably this is a foundation stone or a building opening stone for ...

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From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...

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Tony Hancock, 1924 - 1968, comedian, lived here, 1947 - 1948. The Dead Comics Society

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In grateful memory of Alderman Charles Fisher Yates JP, an ardent worker for and benefactor of the West Hackney Almshouses, who passed aw...

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

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