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Geoffrey Barkington

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Geoffrey Barkington

In the January 2025 the creator wrote: "I shared a house with friends who regularly looked after a pampered dachshund called Geoffrey. He had even appeared in Vogue, so I am told. I’m not sure whether my decision to prematurely memorialise Geoffrey’s departure was out of disdain for his bourgeois lifestyle but his plot had been reserved within the Houndsditch pet cemetery."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Geoffrey Barkington

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Geoffrey Barkington

The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. Th...

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