English Characters
William ‘Mole Man’ Lyttle, 1931 - 2010, burrower, lived and dug here, 1962 - 2009.
Karmarama
N1, Mortimer Street, 121
Photos taken in early summer 2010. The plaque is unlikely to remain in situ as the house is in danger of collapsing, owing to Mr Lyttle’s excavations. 2014: The house looks no better.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
mole man
Known as the ‘Mole Man’ because he spent forty years digging a series of tunn...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) - poet - lived here. L.C.C.
Francisco de Miranda 1750 - 1816 lived in this house between 1803 and 1810. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he was the forerunner of the i...
Hounslow Bus Station and Garage was built 1925.
Anna Freud, 1895 - 1982, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, lived here 1938 - 1982.
Will Hay, 1888 - 1949, comic actor and astronomer, lived here, 1927 - 1934. English Heritage
Some of the "other material damage" can be seen in the pock-marks in the stone wall behind the plaque.
Comedy actor. Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Worked as a diamond sorter and th...
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