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The place Kenneth really felt was ‘home’
• MY elderly mother, is Kenneth Williams’s first cousin and one of his last surviving relatives.
She has long supported the blue plaque on the building of his Osnaburgh Street home, and was rather distressed to learn of its removal.
After reading the article in the New Journal (Stop messin’ about and honour one of our great actors! May 15), it is my mother’s belief that he would have very much liked his plaque to remain there as opposed to it being moved to above his father’s former barber shop in nearby Marchmont Street, where he spent an awkward youth and subsequently had fewer fond memories.
As a regular visitor to his home in Osnaburgh Street, my mother recalls him being content living there.
Her Auntie Lou, Kenneth’s beloved mother, also had an apartment in the same building and it was the place he really considered “home”.
Bernadette Dunbar, NW3
Campaign
• MANY thanks for your article on the calls from King’s Cross residents for English Heritage to honour Kenneth Williams with a celebratory blue plaque (Stop messin’ about and honour one of our great actors! May 15).
As you rightly say in the article, Kenneth Williams spent many years of his life living in the King’s Cross area in Judd Street and Marchmont Street.
With such strong links to the community, we hope that English Heritage will recognise one of Britain’s finest comedy actors with a blue plaque in the coming months.
If anyone is interested in supporting our campaign they could help by writing to English Heritage at:
Dr Simon Thurley,
Chief Executive
English Heritage
1 Waterhouse Square
138 Holborn, London EC1N 2ST.
CLLR Jonathan Simpson
Labour, King’s Cross ward
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