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The owners of Tilak's main London residence, 10 Howley Place, initially refused consent for a plaque so this one was erected, on a building where Tilak had lived in 1919 for only a few months. In 1975 this house was demolished by Westminster City Council to make way for the block of flats, Anglebury, and the Shrewsbury Road Gardens. The plaque was carefully taken down and returned to the Greater London Council. By 1988 the owners of Howley Place must have changed because a plaque was erected there.

Ordnance Survey maps at place number 60 opposite the middle of the block of houses on the south side of Talbot Road, between Moorhouse Road and Sutherland Place.

This photo of the house is an extract of a photo we were delighted to find at the wonderful , where it is captioned: "1973. Front elevation of a terrace of Victorian houses at 44-66 Talbot Road, Paddington, with number 66 in the foreground at the corner of {what was then} Moorhouse Road {and is now the Anglebury block of flats}. The houses have four storeys, basements, first-floor balconies and iron basement railings. These houses no longer exist, having been replaced in 1978 by {Anglebury and} Shrewsbury {Road} Gardens."  But what is really pleasing is to see the circular mark left by the plaque - on the fourth house from the left, first floor. The Archive have excellent zoom on their images and it's clearer there.