Polygon Road was the site of The Polygon - a fifteen sided building of 32 houses situated around a garden. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft lived at No 29 for a time and their daughter, later to become Mary Shelley, was born here. Charles Dickens lodged at No 17 some years later when the area was in decline (in 1828). The Polygon was demolished in 1890.
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The Polygon
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Somers Town Mural
This mural measures 33 by 44 feet. Its creation and much of its content was ...
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Sir Christopher Wren
Born East Knoyle, Wiltshire, died London. Designer of 54 London churches, of which 13 were destroyed in the Blitz. Part of one of his churches, St Antholin, has ended up in an unexpected location...
William Holford, Baron Holford
Architect and town planner. Born South Africa. Designed a rejected plan for pedestrians to be raised on walkways around Piccadilly Circus, and a much-loathed Paternoster Square which was, partly, b...
John William Charles Darbourne CBE
Architect. He and fellow architect Geoffrey Darke founded the firm of Darbourne and Darke, specifically, to design the Lillington Gardens Estate in Pimlico. They also designed much of the landscapi...
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