Return of the Plaque of the Week!
Our Plaque of the Week series returns for a 12 week run…
You've seen them all over the city: discs, tablets, cameos and plaques commemorating the great and the good of London Town. Wednesday is our new day for tracking down London plaques (Blue or otherwise) and putting them center stage on the Daily Constitutional. This week…
George Orwell, it would seem, is a most
plaque-able fellow. Commemorations abound. Only the other week, we Tweeted
(@londonwalks) about a new commemoration here in London…
This
London Life. The proposed statue of George Orwell outside BBC Broadcasting
House is gonna happen. DG had nixed it: G.O. "too left
wing"
— London Walks (@londonwalks) February
28, 2013
Plaques aplenty, too, for the writer of
Animal Farm and 1984. And more controversy. One of his Hampstead plaques was
defaced – quite literally – back in October 2012. Here’s the story on the
Orwell Society website…
(Click this link for www.orwellsociety.com
or click the pic above)
Hang on… one of his Hampstead plaques?
Isn’t the “rule” that there’s only one plaque per person? Well, yes, sort of…
certainly English Heritage issue one plaque per person in the Blue Plaque
series. And Orwell’s is in Kentish Town…
… at 50 Lawford Road.
His Hampstead Plaque Fund commemoration…
… can be found at 77 Parliament Hill, where
he lived in 1935.
Have you spotted any others? Drop us a line at the usual address or leave a comment below.
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London Walk costs £9 – £7 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your
guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all
London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.
