Here, 50 years ago, Allen Lane published his first paperbacks, thereby changing reading habits throughout the English-speaking world.
30 July 1985.
Site: Allen Lane (1 memorial)
W1, Vigo Street, 8
Here, 50 years ago, Allen Lane published his first paperbacks, thereby changing reading habits throughout the English-speaking world.
30 July 1985.
W1, Vigo Street, 8
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Allen Lane
The eleven pavement plaques can be seen randomly distributed over this paved area. The Nightingale Street Buildings plaque can just be se...
The plaques are on the stone pillars either side of the entrance; plaque 1 to the left in our photo and plaque 2 to the right. The stran...
This plaque surely should have been designed with the Clarendon typeface, just as Johnston's plaque used his.
Martina Bergman Ősterberg 1849-1915, Pioneer of Physical Education for Women, lived and worked here.
With no other information we cannot identify "M.M.S.E. de N." so we are rather stumped. The poem is by Mary Hall but the voice could be ...
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