Erection date: 1977
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, 1856 - 1925, novelist, lived here 1885 - 1888.
Greater London Council.
W14, Gunterstone Road, 69
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Novelist. Born at Wood Farm, West Bradenham, Norfolk. At the age of nineteen ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Greater London Council Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.
Eagle House can be seen on this 1866 map and you can see it still there on this 1894 map surrounded by the Holborn Union workhouse and th...
This plaque is significantly smaller than usual and our colleague, Alan Patient, points out that it is attached to one of a pair of pilas...
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, while not named on the memorial, is alluded to, with the date 1538. We note that the text gives Escr...
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
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