Upper Norwood: former Natwest Bank
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Upper Norwood: former Natwest Bank
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 30 Jan 2011
This building, formerly the Natwest Bank and now a solicitor's, stands on the site of a house in which Camille Pissarro stayed when in exile from the Franco-Prussian War. The blue plaque commemorates this. Rules for "official" blue plaques erected by English Heritage (and before them, the Greater London Council and London County Council) are strict, and require the building marked to be the actual one commemorated: standing on the site of it is not good enough. (A few exceptions sneak through from the very earliest years of the scheme.) However, there is nothing to stop an organisation having its own blue plaque made by the same firm that English Heritage uses and this is what has happened here: the plaque was a joint venture by the Crystal Palace Foundation and the National Westminster Bank.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.419923
Longitude
-0.07915