Thomas Chatterton blue plaque

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# 39 Brooke Street, EC1 Standing beneath this blue plaque on Brooke Street, you're marking the tragic final chapter of one of literature's most meteoric and devastating stories. It was in a cramped room of a house on this very site that seventeen-year-old Thomas Chatterton spent the last weeks of h...

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39 Brooke Street, EC1

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In a house on this site Thomas Chatterton died August 24th 1770