Erection date: 1984
George Orwell, 1930 - 1950, writer, lived here.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
Orwell lived here for 6 months in 1935 while he was working in the South End Green Bookshop and writing "Keep the Aspidstra Flying". Unveiled by Michael Foot.
NW3, Parliament Hill, 77
No 77 is the end house, with the Heath behind.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell - Parliament Hill
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell - Parliament Hill
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
Politician and journalist. Born Plymouth. Leader of the Labour party 1980-198...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
Siegfried Sassoon, MC, poet, novelist, biographer, 1886-1967, lived and worked in a house on this site, 1919-1925. The Thorney Island Soc...
LCC Lord Palmerston (1784 - 1865) Prime Minister, born here.
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
The house of Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor, lived and died here, 1929-1959.
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