Erection date: 22/4/2015
George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, Sir Stephen Spender, 1919 - 1995, wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here, 1940 - 1948.
Marchmont Association
University of London
WC1, Lansdowne Terrace, 2
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling...
Literary critic and writer. Â Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
Poet.  Born 47 Campden House Court, Kensington.  The Evening Standard carries...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
English Heritage Count Edward Raczynski, 1891 - 1993, Polish statesman lived here, 1967 - 1993.
John Templeton, 1802 - 1886, opera singer, lived here. Refurbishment by Berkshire Securities Limited.
London Borough of Lewisham Leland Lewis Duncan, 1862 - 1923, local historian, lived here, 1873 - 1923.
Palace Theatre - Stage Entrance The world's greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors.
The two lower plaques seen in our photo are not commemorative, they bear the building's current name 'Bow Quarter'. The terracotta relie...
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