Erection date: 30/11/2015
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. OM, 1860 - 1937, novelist, dramatist and creator of 'Peter Pan', lived in a house on this site, 1885 - 1888.
Marchmont Association
WC1, Grenville Street, 8, Downing Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
J.M. Barrie - WC1
The Marchmont Association thoroughly research their plaques and they found so...
Playwright and novelist. Born Kirriemuir, Scotland. Moved to London, Bloomsbu...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
J.M. Barrie - WC1
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
The plaques are just inside the entrance to the building. Although the foundation stone was laid in 1913, WW1 got in the way, and the bu...
In 2009 Alan Patient reported that "the pub has been boarded up for many months and the plaque removed." 2013: The Victorian Society are...
The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph. The quotation is an edited version of Isaiah 35:1, “The wilder...
This 'plaque' was spotted in 2018 by a friend who lives nearby, to whom we are also grateful for the photos.
Downham Health & Leisure Centre officially opened by Steve Bullock, the Mayor of Lewisham and David Lammy MP, Minister for Culture. T...
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
Horace Walpole, 1717-1797, man of letters, lived here.
NUWSS in Manchester, Labour MP for Jarrow. As Jarrow MP she played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March. Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Born Manchester. Had a close per...
Virginians seem keen on sending us their soil: in 1921 they gave us a statue of one of their great men, George Washington, along with som...
Sculptor. Born France but moved to London in 1872 and eventually took British nationality. Late in life wrote three books which are still standard texts for many students. Died at home, 50 Perry...
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