17 Gough Square - where Dr. Johnson compiled his dictionary
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17 Gough Square - where Dr. Johnson compiled his dictionary
17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London - where Dr. Samuel Johnson compiled his dictionary in 1748. In the garret (with the slanting roof) his assistants worked. The purchaser of the property (in 1911) Cecil Harmsworth who is reported to have said "......it presented every appearance of squalor and decay.....it is doubtful whether in the whole of London there existed a more forlorn or dilapidated tenement". This card, dating from around the time Harmsworths purchase shows the building in a poor state of repair, with the then occupant being the printing firm of Waller & Baines. Date: circa 1911
Media ID 11587267
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
1748 Baines Broken Cecil Decay Derelict Dictionary Dilapidated Doctor Garret Gough Harmsworth Johnson Johnsons Office Plaque Poor Printer Printers Printing Property Repair Roof Samuel Slanting Squalor Tatty Tenement Waller Windows
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