Greater London Council
Thomas de Quincy, 1785 - 1859, wrote "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in this house.
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
WC2, Tavistock Street, 36
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eate...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Built 1894. Love the solar panels.
The name of the house in which the school was housed started as Bowling Green House. It was changed to Grove House. see our page for the...
All our information about this plaque, including the photograph, comes from (2016) Roberta Wedge. Another photo there shows the plaque at...
This plaque was originally erected in 1902 at 3G but Watts incorrectly gave the date of the tragedy as 1885 instead of 1895, so when the ...
Clissold Crescent was part of the Willow Estate, whose history is well-covered at Local Local History, but Brooks is not mentioned there....
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