Erection date: 25/6/1998
This building was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, 25 June 1998.
This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
All the sculptures are inside the main building.
See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Opening of the British Library
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening i...
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Opening of the British Library
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Opening of the British Library
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
Ida Lupino (1918 - 1995) actress and film director, born here. The Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
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A London Inheritance explains that only the lower section of wall is actually Roman. The top, brick, section is from 1477 when the City W...
Benjamin Britten, composer, 1913 - 1976, and Peter Pears, singer, 1910 - 1986, lived and worked here, 1943 - 1946. City of Westminster In...
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