Erection date: /9/1995
London Borough of Lewisham
Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924, children's writer & poet, lived here, 1882-1885.
Plaque unveiled by Fern Ravandi, her great-granddaughter.
SE13, Elswick Road, 28
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edith Nesbit
Author and poet. Wrote approximately 40 books for children including 'The Rai...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edith Nesbit
The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Bor...
Our image comes from Paradise Memorial Garden. SarfLondonDunc informs that the plaque's absence was noticed by someone on 18 Nov 2009, ...
Obviously a ‘Do-It-Yourself’ job. A local resident described it as looking like it was made on the bottom of an oil drum.
Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958, pioneer of the study of molecular structures including DNA, lived here, 1951-1958. English Heritage
We chickened out of deciding where to put the apostrophe in 'Mothers'.
This plaque surely should have been designed with the Clarendon typeface, just as Johnston's plaque used his.
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