In Elizabethan times, a favourite spot for archery contests.
Edward Lear, 1812 - 1888, born and lived nearby in Bowman's Lodge.
Historic Site - London Borough of Islington
N7, Bowman's Mews
Bowman's Lodge, the house in which he was born, had a splendid view and Lear's earliest memory was of being wrapped in a blanket and held up at a window to see the illuminations celebrating the Battle of Waterloo.
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Edward Lear - N7
An elegant house with views across countryside. Â Edward Lear's stockbroker fa...
From the Norman period, at least, until the introduction of firearms in the 1...
Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Art...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edward Lear - N7
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
The plaque does not make it clear that the early history all took place at another site; there was no church or chapel on this site until...
Dr. John Snow, 1813 - 1858, pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist lived in a house on this site.
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The plaque is located at 13 Pendennis Road, Streatham, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says he was born in Angles Road, w...
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