Laurence Gomme blue plaque

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# 24 Dorset Square Standing before this elegant Georgian townhouse in one of London's most refined squares, you're looking at the domestic heart of Sir Laurence Gomme's most productive years—the fourteen years between 1895 and 1909 when he transformed folklore from a casual antiquarian pursuit into...

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24 Dorset Square

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Sir Laurence Gomme 1853-1916 clerk to the London County Council, folklorist and historian lived here 1895-1909