Erection date: 1894
We think that hiding below hundreds of layers of whitewash is a fine relief bust of Shakespeare. This is at the top of the pargeting (decorative plasterwork) in the pediment.
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Willesden Library - Shakespeare
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Willesden Library - Shakespeare
The bust was unveiled on Garvey's 129th birthday, and is now inside a glass c...
Willesden Green Library was established in 1894 following a poll of the ratep...
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The inscribed day of death, 8, is consistently contradicted by other sources which give 5. The inscription on the rear of the plinth is a...
{On the west side, beneath the relief depicting a scene with 5 people on a shore:} The discovery and fixing the site of Sydney on Wednes...
The arcade contains four modern busts, left to right: Pepys Cromwell Shakespeare Wren and a statue of Whittington to the left.
This 1878-9 building by E. M. Barry was hidden behind scaffolding when we visited in November 2013 but by April 2014 it was showing its n...
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