Erection date: 1918
Thomas Gray, poet, was born in a house on this site.
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day". {first line of 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’}
1716 - 1771
{Below the relief:}
F. W. Pomeroy, Sc. 1917
EC3, Cornhill, 39
The two plaques closest to the camera both read "39, The Union Discount Company of London plc". Grey's plaque is at the same level, further to the left.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Gray
Poet. Born Cornhill. Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Gray
Born London. His London work includes the 1906 Lady Justice on the dome of th...
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from l...
A London Inheritance has, again, provided some interesting background, about how this plaque has moved. It used to be below the first flo...
The plaque is in the pavement between the bike stands and the decorative post.
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist. Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849 - 1928, writer and critic born here. Greater London Council
Charles Laughton, 1899 - 1962, actor, lived here, 1928 - 1931. English Heritage
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