London Stories
Walks, histories, and hidden corners behind London's 1,625+ Blue Plaques.
Sir John Soane's Museum: The Architect's House on Lincoln's Inn Fields, Frozen in Time by Act of Parliament
Leighton House Museum: Inside the Holland Park Palace of Art (and the Painter Who Was a Lord for a Single Day)
Leighton House Museum in Kensington is the studio-home Frederic Leighton built as a private palace of art, crowned by the golden, tiled Arab Hall. Here is the house, the artist, the Holland Park Circle around it, and how to visit.
Covent Garden Blue Plaques: A Walking Guide to the Famous Residents of London's Theatre District (Turner's Birthplace, David Garrick, the Actors' Church, and Jane Austen on Henrietta Street)
A walking guide to Covent Garden's blue plaques: Turner born on Maiden Lane, David Garrick and the theatres of Drury Lane, the actors' church where Punch and Judy began, Jane Austen on Henrietta Street, and Dickens as a boy.
Marylebone Blue Plaques: A Walking Guide to the Famous Residents of London's Most Plaque-Dense Neighbourhood (Baker Street to Harley Street, Sherlock Holmes to the Beatles)
A walking guide to Marylebone's blue plaques: Sherlock Holmes at 221b Baker Street, the Beatles' Apple Boutique, the Harley Street doctors, and the writers, composers, and reformers who lived in W1.
Vincent van Gogh's London: The Brixton Lodging, the Covent Garden Art Dealer, and the Blue Plaque on Hackford Road
A guide to Vincent van Gogh's London: the years 1873-76 he spent in the city as an art dealer and teacher, the blue plaque at 87 Hackford Road in Brixton, the Isleworth marker, and a walk through the story.
Carnaby Street and the Swinging Sixties: The Soho Walk Through London's Fashion and Music Revolution (John Stephen, the Mod Boutiques, and the Plaques Around Kingly and Denmark Street)
A guide to Carnaby Street and Soho's Swinging Sixties: the John Stephen plaque, the mod boutiques, the Small Faces, the Bag O'Nails on Kingly Street, the Marquee on Wardour Street, and Denmark Street's Tin Pan Alley.
Alexander Fleming's London: The Paddington Lab Where Penicillin Was Discovered and the Chelsea Blue Plaque at His Home
A guide to Alexander Fleming's London: the St Mary's Hospital lab in Paddington where penicillin was discovered in 1928, the Chelsea blue plaque on Danvers Street, the museum, and a walk through the story.
Kenwood House: The Hampstead Heath Mansion, the Adam Library, the Iveagh Bequest, and the Mansfield Judgment That Was Decided Here
Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath is the country mansion Robert Adam remade for the 1st Earl of Mansfield, where the 1772 Somerset judgment took shape, where Dido Elizabeth Belle was brought up, and where the Iveagh Bequest brought a Vermeer and a Rembrandt to the heath edge. Here is the guide to the house, the plaques, the art, and the campaign that saved the estate.
William Blake's London: The Four Plaques That Trace the Visionary Poet (Marshall Street Soho, Hercules Road Lambeth, South Molton Street Mayfair, Hampstead) and the Bunhill Fields Grave
A walking guide to William Blake's London: the Soho birthplace marker on Marshall Street, the Hercules Road plaque in Lambeth where he wrote Songs of Innocence and Jerusalem, the South Molton Street home in Mayfair where he made the prophetic books, the Hampstead house where he visited John Linnell, and the Bunhill Fields grave with its 2018 headstone.
Benjamin Franklin House: The Only Surviving Franklin Home in the World, on Craven Street off the Strand (The Plaques, the Basement Bones, and a Charing Cross Walk)
A guide to Benjamin Franklin House at 36 Craven Street near Charing Cross: the only surviving Franklin home in the world, its rare early plaque and 1914 blue plaque, the bones found in the basement, and a short walk through Franklin's London.
Mary Seacole's London: The Soho Square Blue Plaque, the Marylebone Green Plaque, and the Statue at St Thomas' That Faces Parliament
Mary Seacole London: the 14 Soho Square blue plaque, the 147 George Street green plaque, the 2016 memorial statue at St Thomas' Hospital, her grave at Kensal Green, and the Crimean nurse history that links her to Florence Nightingale.
Charlie Chaplin's London: The South London Sites That Trace the Tramp From the Walworth Birthplace to the Leicester Square Statue (Kennington Road, the Lambeth Workhouse, and Pownall Terrace)
A walking guide to Charlie Chaplin's London: the Walworth birthplace, the blue plaque at 287 Kennington Road, the Pownall Terrace garret, the Lambeth Workhouse that is now the Cinema Museum, and the Leicester Square statue of the Tramp.
Emmeline Pankhurst's London: The Five Sites That Trace the Suffragette Leader (Clarendon Road, Caxton Hall, Victoria Tower Gardens, Holloway, and Brompton Cemetery)
A walking guide to Emmeline Pankhurst's London: the Clarendon Road blue plaque she shares with Christabel, the Caxton Hall Women's Parliaments, the 1930 statue beside Parliament, the Holloway hunger strikes, and her Brompton Cemetery grave.
George Orwell's London: The Four Sites That Trace the Writer from Burma Return to Animal Farm and 1984 (22 Portobello Road, 77 Parliament Hill and Booklovers' Corner, BBC Broadcasting House, 27B Canonbury Square)
A walking guide to the London of George Orwell: the Portobello Road lodgings he took after Burma, the Hampstead bookshop he worked in for rent money, the BBC Broadcasting House office that gave 1984 its Room 101, and the Canonbury Square flat where Animal Farm was finished and 1984 begun.
Charles Darwin's London: Down House in Bromley, the Gower Street Plaque That Marks His First London Home, and the Sandwalk Where He Thought Through On the Origin of Species
A walking guide to the London of Charles Darwin: Down House in Bromley where he wrote On the Origin of Species, the Gower Street plaque that marks his first London home, the Sandwalk he paced daily, and the route from town.
Oscar Wilde's London: The Four Sites That Trace the Aesthete From Tite Street to the Old Bailey (34 Tite Street, the Cadogan Hotel, the Royal Courts of Justice, the Old Bailey)
A walking guide to Oscar Wilde's London: 34 Tite Street in Chelsea, the Cadogan Hotel arrest, the Royal Courts of Justice libel trial, and the Old Bailey criminal trials, with the blue plaques and Aesthetic Movement geography that anchor each stop.
Apsley House and Wellington Arch: The Duke of Wellington's London at Hyde Park Corner (Number One London, the Quadriga, and the Achilles Statue)
A walking guide to the Duke of Wellington's London at Hyde Park Corner: Apsley House, the home known as Number One London, Wellington Arch and its Quadriga, the equestrian statue, and the Achilles monument in Hyde Park.
Shakespeare's Globe: The Five Bankside Sites That Trace the Theatre From 1599 to the Modern Stage
A walking guide to Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside: the 1599 original site on Park Street, the 1613 burning during Henry VIII, the second Globe of 1614, Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction, and the four surrounding plaques.
Sherlock Holmes and Baker Street: The 221b Address That Doesn't Exist, the Museum That Acts Like It Does, and Where Arthur Conan Doyle Actually Lived
A walking guide to Sherlock Holmes and Baker Street: the fictional 221b address, the Museum at 239 Baker Street, the bronze statue at the Tube, and the real Conan Doyle plaques in Marylebone and South Norwood.
Winston Churchill's London: The Four Sites That Trace the Wartime Prime Minister (Eccleston Square, Cabinet War Rooms, Parliament Square, Hyde Park Gate)
A walking guide to Winston Churchill's London: the Eccleston Square home where the young Admiralty Lord rose, the Cabinet War Rooms where he ran the Second World War, the Parliament Square statue, and the Hyde Park Gate house where he died in 1965.
Ada Lovelace's London: The Four Plaques That Trace the World's First Computer Programmer (Holles Street to St James's Square to Marylebone to Ealing)
A walking guide to Ada Lovelace's London: the four blue and green plaques across her father's birthplace, her own Westminster home, Charles Babbage's Saturday-salon house, and the Ealing wedding plaque.
Abbey Road Studios in London: The Crossing, the Listed Building, and the Beatles Plaques That Map the Band's London
A visitor's guide to Abbey Road Studios in London: the Grade II listed building, the world's only listed pedestrian crossing, and a five-stop walking route through the Beatles plaques across the city.
Florence Nightingale's London: The Three Plaques That Trace the Lady with the Lamp from Harley Street to Mayfair to Highgate
Florence Nightingale London: the three blue plaques (Harley Street, 10 South Street Mayfair, 37 Highgate West Hill), the post-Crimea statistical revolution, and a Mayfair walking tour.
The Freud Museum London: The Hampstead House Where Sigmund Freud Spent His Final Year (and Anna Freud Spent the Next Forty-Four)
The Freud Museum London at 20 Maresfield Gardens is the only address Sigmund Freud lived at in Britain. The consultation room with the original Vienna couch is preserved exactly as he left it. Here is the history of the house, the plaque, and the daughter who turned both into a museum.
The Bloomsbury Group's London: A Walking Tour of the Blue Plaques in Gordon Square, Fitzroy Square, and Tavistock Square
A walking guide to the Bloomsbury Group's London: the blue plaques in Gordon Square, Fitzroy Square, and Tavistock Square, the seven core members, and the houses they shared across one square mile of Bloomsbury.
Mary Wollstonecraft's London: The Three Plaques That Trace the Mother of Modern Feminism (Plus the Daughter Who Wrote Frankenstein)
A walking guide to Mary Wollstonecraft's London: the three blue plaques in Hackney, Camden, and Southwark, the Newington Green roots, and the two Mary Shelley plaques in Bloomsbury and Belgravia.
Alan Turing's London: The Maida Vale Birthplace, the Hampton Workshop, and the Plaques That Mark the Codebreaker's City
Alan Turing's London traced through five addresses: the Warrington Crescent birthplace blue plaque, the Teddington labs where he built the ACE prototype, and the city that shaped the codebreaker before and after Bletchley.
Keats House Hampstead: The Cottage Where He Wrote Ode to a Nightingale (Plus a Hampstead Literary Walk)
Keats House Hampstead is the Wentworth Place cottage where John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in 1819. Visiting tips, history, and a walking route through Hampstead's literary plaques.
Historical Pubs in London: Twelve Drinking Houses That Pour Centuries (with the Plaques Around Them)
Twelve historical pubs in London from 1546 to 1939, the writers, politicians, and criminals each one served, and the blue plaques next door. A chronological walking order.
Karl Marx's Grave at Highgate Cemetery: A Walking Guide From His Soho Plaque to His Tomb
Where to find Karl Marx's grave at Highgate Cemetery East, what's at the monument, and how to pair the visit with the blue plaque on his Soho garret on Dean Street.
Amy Winehouse's Statue in Camden: A Walking Guide to Her London (Stables Market to Camden Square)
The Amy Winehouse statue stands at Stables Market in Camden. Her blue plaque is half a mile away at 30 Camden Square. This guide walks both, plus every other Amy landmark in NW1.
Freddie Mercury's Blue Plaque: Finding the Queen Frontman's London (Feltham to Kensington)
The Freddie Mercury blue plaque sits at 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, on the house where Fred Bulsara became Freddie. A guide to the plaque, Queen's first London gig, and a walking route.
Handel Hendrix House London: The Mayfair Wall That Connects Two Music Legends 250 Years Apart
The Handel Hendrix House in London occupies 23 and 25 Brook Street, Mayfair. Handel lived at 25 from 1723, Hendrix at 23 from 1968. Two blue plaques, one museum.
Visiting the Charles Dickens Museum in London: A Complete Guide
How to visit the Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street: what's inside, opening times, and the Bloomsbury Blue Plaque walk to pair it with.
Alternative Walking Tour of London: Four Routes Using the City's Blue Plaques
Skip the tourist trail. Four self-guided alternative walking tours of London built around the city's Blue Plaques: literary, musical, scientific, and political routes.
Blue Plaques in London: The Complete Guide (History, Map, and Walking Routes)
Everything about London's Blue Plaques — the history of the scheme, 10 of the most famous, a central-London walking route, and how to track the ones you've visited.
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