Before heading on to our next Wednesday special series, we take a moment to recap our last…
1. Site of Henley House School…
4. AA Milne’s House in Chelsea…
10 London sites relating to Winnie the Pooh
10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 10. Winnie’s “birth place”…
For our last stop on our tour of London locations related to Winnie-the-Pooh, we visit a couple of more unusual plaques – marking the place where the teddybear who became known as Winnie-the-Pooh was “born”.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 9. Methuen & Co…
The book Winnie-the-Pooh was first published on 14th October, 1926, by Methuen & Co in London.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 8. The Evening News…
Winnie-the-Pooh’s first appearance by that name came on 24th December, 1925, when a Christmas story by AA Milne’s was published in The Evening News.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 7. EH Shepard’s childhood home…
Famed as the illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh, EH Shepard spent his early childhood at a property in Regent’s Park now marked with an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 6. Harrods…
While London Zoo played an important role in the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh, so too did another well-known establishment – Harrods in Knightsbridge.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 5. London Zoo..
London Zoo played a key role in the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 4. AA Milne’s House in Chelsea…
This house in Chelsea was where AA Milne was living during the years he wrote Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 3. Punch Magazine…
Winnie-the-Pooh author AA Milne worked at Punch magazine prior to writing his famous book and it was while doing so that he started a friendship that was to prove consequential.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 2. Westminster School…
There’s a couple of connections between the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh and this London institution.
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10 London sites relating to Winnie-the-Pooh – 1. Site of Henley House School…
Think of locations related to Winnie-the-Pooh and chances are you’ll think of idyllic rural scenes like the Hundred Acre Wood (based on Ashdown Wood in East Sussex – more on that in a later post). But, as we’ll find, there are numerous locations in London which tell the some of the story of the world famous books and their creator, AA Milne.
To mark the 100th anniversary of publication of Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, we’re taking a look at some of them…
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