Dylan Thomas in Chiswick

BB) Dylan Thomas (1914-53). Poet, playwright, short story writer, broadcaster. Under Milk Wood, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Lived in: St Paul’s Vicarage, Grove Park c. 1938-41; 13 Hammersmith Terrace from 1941-2. Also stayed at Ship Cottage, Strand on the Green.
64 Grove Park Road (St Paul’s Vicarage), W4 (Private residential home, no access)

Dylan Thomas – Wikipedia 
History of St Paul’s Grove Park 
Who was Who at Strand on the Green – B&CLHS 


1. Entry on the St Paul’s Grove Park website.
64 Grove Park Road W4 is the address of the Vicarage. The letter was unearthed by Val Bott of the Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society, but she says the date seems wrong. See separate entry below. The Vicarage is often used for filming and many celebrities have been spotted there. See History of St Paul’s
2. Entry on the ‘Discover Dylan Thomas’ website:
The Thomas family lived at 13 Hammersmith Terrace from late 1941 to early 1942, in a studio owned by the writer, and later, politician, A.P.Herbert. The poet John Pudney convinced his father in law to allow them to stay in one of his two adjacent houses on the terrace. Caitlin Macnamara was born on Hammersmith Terrace ( we think next door at number 12) on December 8th 1913.
Dylan Thomas wrote:
I have to move from Hammersmith Terrace, and am trying to get a house in St Peter’s Square to share with some people who have furniture. You don’t know I suppose, anyone who has any furniture stored in London and who would want to give it a good home? The only things I have are a deckchair with a hole in it, half a dozen books, a few toys, and an old iron. These would not fill even a mouse’s home. (Letter to Ruth Wynn Owen, May 1942)
3. Entry on the ‘Who Was Who In Strand on the Green’ webpage Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society

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