William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, lived in this house, then known as 18 Woburn Buildings, from 1895 to 1919.
Site: WB Yeats - Woburn Walk (1 memorial)
WC1, Woburn Walk, 5
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, lived in this house, then known as 18 Woburn Buildings, from 1895 to 1919.
WC1, Woburn Walk, 5
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
WB Yeats - Woburn Walk
Poet and dramatist. Born in Dublin to John Butler Yeats. A member of The Rhy...
The location was Greig's mother's shop, opened in 1870. The address then was 3 St Mary's Terrace.
The plaque, as well as having rather peculiar punctuation gets the year of death wrong but only by 2 days, so understandable.
Strond is an old spelling of 'strand' meaning a beach.
British History On-line gives "This part of the site was rebuilt in 1951–5 for the College of Estate Management as a two-storey block in ...
Raikes was the Postmaster General who commissioned this building for the General Post Office. This portrait keystone was brought to our a...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them