Mrs Knott's dame school. H.G. Wells was a pupil here, 1871 - 1874.
Site: H. G. Wells - South Street Bromley (1 memorial)
BR1, South Street, 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Mrs Knott's dame school. H.G. Wells was a pupil here, 1871 - 1874.
BR1, South Street, 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
H. G. Wells - South Street Bromley
Born Bromley, Kent. Wrote "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "The H...
School in Bromley, attended by the young H.G. Wells. Dame Schools were an ear...
The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front or back of all books to identify the printer. Not sure we w...
Siegfried Sassoon, 1886 - 1967, writer, lived here 1925 - 1932. English Heritage
"Form rooms" is what many public schools call their class rooms, after the forms (benches) on which the pupils sat.
The plaque refers to "Thomas Branden, Duke of Suffolk". We have two problems with this: firstly "Branden" is elsewhere consistently spelt...
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