{Carved on the wall to the left of the front door:}
The Lord Mayor's National Thanksgiving Fund, 1950, gave and endowed this building.
Carved on the wall to the right of the front door:
"William Goodenough House, 1957
Goodenough College"
WC1, Mecklenburgh Square, Goodenough House
This building replaced houses destroyed or badly damaged by WW2 bombs, one of which forced Virginia Woolf to vacate.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Goodenough House
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Goodenough House
This is not a college but an organisation that provides residential accommoda...
William Wilkie Collins, 1824 - 1889, novelist, lived here. London County Council
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) - poet - lived here. L.C.C.
The two boxes carry identical plaques.
From the wording and the style, these plaques must have been erected along with the 1877 clock tower. The impetus behind both the constru...
Sir Alec Guinness C.B.E., 1914 - 2000, actor, was born here. The Heritage Foundation
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