Erection date: 2004
C. L. R. James, 1901 - 1989, West Indian writer and political activist, lived and died here.
English Heritage
SE24, Railton Road, 165-7, Brixton Advice Centre
Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist and political activist. A pionee...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
C. L. R. James
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
C. L. R. James
Near this spot at 62 Fore Street on the 29th January 1850 was born Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City Movement. The Corporat...
Sir Peter Medawar, 1915 - 1987, pioneer of transplantation immunology, lived here. English Heritage
Unveiled by Muir's house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley.
'The artist is dead long live the poet', sounds like a quotation, but we cannot find any reference to it.
In 2022 Philip Broke told us that the plaque on this house is blue not purple. We revisited and we have added our photo here. The blue pl...
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