Erection date: 16/9/2020
Christine Granville, born Krystyna Skarbek, 1908 - 1952, SOE agent, lived here 1949 - 1952.
English Heritage
W8, Lexham Gardens, 1
Post-WW2 this house in the centre of London’s post-war Polish community was the cheap Shelbourne Hotel, run by the Polish Relief Society.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
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The Croydon Guardian tells about this building being home to the 144-year old family furniture business House of Reeves. Both these plaqu...
London Borough of Lewisham Leland Lewis Duncan, 1862 - 1923, local historian, lived here, 1873 - 1923.
The plaques are on the stone pillars either side of the entrance; plaque 1 to the left in our photo and plaque 2 to the right. The stran...
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