John Milton blue plaque

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# John Milton's Bread Street Standing beneath this blue plaque on Bread Street, you're positioned at the very threshold of one of England's greatest literary minds—the house where John Milton drew his first breath in 1608, born into a prosperous merchant family in this bustling heart of medieval Lo...

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Bow Bells House, Bread Street

Inscription

The poet and statesman John Milton was born 1608 in Bread Street