Erection date: 22/4/2015
George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, Sir Stephen Spender, 1919 - 1995, wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here, 1940 - 1948.
Marchmont Association
University of London
WC1, Lansdowne Terrace, 2
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling...
Literary critic and writer. Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
Poet. Born 47 Campden House Court, Kensington. The Evening Standard carries...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
Michael Flanders, 1922 - 1975, Donald Swann, 1923 - 1994, writers and performers of comic songs, lived and worked in the garden studio. E...
Author of "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family" Elizabeth Rundle Charles lived here 1874 - 1896
When we first spotted this memorial, in November 2004, there was just the plaque, no clock. By January 2007 the whole station had underg...
Eric Coates, composer, lived in this house, 1925 - 1931. London Borough of Barnet
London County Council William Huskisson, 1770 - 1830, statesman lived here.
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