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Edgar Wallace bronze plaque
Edgar Wallace · Writer
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“Edgar Wallace Reporter Born London 1875 Died Hollywood 1931 Founder member of the Company of Newspaper Makers He knew wealth & poverty, yet had walked with kings & kept his bearing. Of his talents he gave lavishly to authorship - but to Fleet Street he gave his heart.”
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1875-1932
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Ludgate Circus
EC4A
Erected 1934
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