Thomas Hardy, 1840 - 1928, poet and author, lived here, 1863 - 1874.
A pleasingly unofficial blue plaque - a rather emphatic layout with the letters practically breaking out the circle.
W2, Westbourne Park Villas, 16
Hardy rented a room on the top floor at the back. The authoritative Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner” by Mark Ford give his dates here as 1863 - 7.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Hardy - W2
Novelist and poet, best known for his novels set in rural 'Wessex' such as Te...
The weather-worn stone above this plaque is, we guess, the original gravestone. Perhaps someone with legal training could explain the me...
This plaque has a shortened version of the text on the old white plaque.
Seems very odd for the chosen illustration to be of a computer game.
There is no indication as to who erected the plaque, but the fulsome description of the Lanesborough Hotel, suggests that they might have...
December 2016: The Mail, The Telegraph and the Brussels Times all report on the removal of a foundation plaque at Queen Mary's. In April...
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