Place    To 1890

The Polygon

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Polygon Road was the site of The Polygon - a fifteen sided building of 32 houses situated around a garden. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft lived at No 29 for a time and their daughter, later to become Mary Shelley, was born here. Charles Dickens lodged at No 17 some years later when the area was in decline (in 1828). The Polygon was demolished in 1890.

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The Polygon

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Somers Town Mural

This mural was commissioned by the GLC in 1980 and moved to this site by St P...

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Philip Charles Hardwick

Philip Charles Hardwick

Architect of St Barts Hospital in 1861. Son of architect Philip Hardwick. We are not actually sure which of the two produced the Speke obelisk in 1866. Hardwick Snr has a track record in obelisks, ...

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2 memorials
John Knight

John Knight

Architect. We only have some ideas about who this might be, from Charles Saumarez Smith. In 1862 he may be the J. McKenzie Knight who designed the lovely Vestry Hall in Bancroft Road E1, and is now...

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1 memorial
Royal Arsenal Gatehouse

Royal Arsenal Gatehouse

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Place, Architecture, Armed Forces

1 memorial
John Young & Son

John Young & Son

Architects active in 1862. Our picture is of John Young, 1797-1877, and the picture source says "Mr Young's eldest son, also called John Young, was to become a successful architect/surveyor in his ...

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
Walter H. Godfrey

Walter H. Godfrey

Walter Hindes Godfrey was born on 2 August 1881, the eldest of the six children of Walter Scott Godfrey (1855-1936) and Gertrude Annie Godfrey née Rendall (1855-1922). His birth was registered in t...

Person, Architecture, History

1 memorial

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Harry Vane

Harry Vane

NW3, Greenhill, Vane House

Sir Harry Vane, statesman, lived here. Born 1612. Beheaded 1662. {Almost hidden in the decorative border:} Erected by the Society of Arts

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator