Following on from Orwell Spotting in Barcelona, here are
some photographs taken in Hampstead in pre-blog 2010.
The plaque outside the, former, Booklover's Corner bookshop, where
George Orwell worked 1934-35 and lived in the flat above while writing Keep
the Aspidistra Flying. A recent story in the Daily Telegraph reported that the plaque had been sadly, and literally,
defaced.
The former bookshop is now occupied by a branch of an up-market cafe chain. One cannot help but wonder how Orwell would have reacted to the price of the 'simple, elegant boulangerie fare made with organic ingredients.'
Below, is a photograph of 77 Parliament Hill, where Orwell moved to in 1935.
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