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The German Hotel (as was), 1 Leicester Street. Karl Marx and his family stayed here in 1850 after they were evicted from their lodgings in Chelsea. Although the hotel was used by political refugees, the Marx family couldn't afford the rent and were forced
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The Red Lion (as was). 20 Great Windmill Street. Marx and Engels lectured here, and drank and smoked. The lectures were given to the Deutsche Arbeiter Bildungs Verein (German Workers' Education Society).
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64 Dean Street. Marx and his family (4 children) lived miserably here in 1850. Their son Henrich Guido died here before he was one.
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18 Greek St. The location were the 'First International' met from 1864 to 1866, and was Peter Cook's Establishment Club from 1961 to 1964.
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28 Dean St. Karl Marx and his family lived in two rooms here in poverty from December 1850 to 1856. Two of their young children died here.
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81 Newman Street. Marrx attended meetings of the Communist Club here from 1874-77.
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25 Newman St. The ANC operated from here in the 1960's.
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Newman Passage,
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George Orwell is believed to have based the Prole's pub from 1984 on the Newman Arms.
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49 Tottenham Street. The Communist Club met here from 1878-1902. Marx and Lenin both visited.
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Before becoming Goodge Street Station in 1907, this was the Athenaeum Hall, where Eleanor Marx gave recitals.
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Whitfield Gardens, Tottenham Court Road. Karl Marx buried three of his seven children here.
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The Rising Sun, 46 Tottenham Court Road. Wilhelm Liebknecht tells the story of a boozy pub crawl with Karl Marx and Edgar Bauer up the length of TCR. This is one of the 18 pubs that existed then.
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The Jack Horner, another pub on the Marx pub crawl along Tottenham Court Road when it was "The Italian".
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"The Spirit of Brotherhood" outside the dreadful 1950's TUC building.
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The Russell Street home of Marx's daughter Eleanor. She put on an Ibsen play here with Bernard Shaw among the cast. She was left a large legacy by Engels in 1895. Committed suicide in Sydenham in 1898.
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46 Grafton Terrace, Kentish Town. Marx and his family lived here until 1864. It seems they relied mainly on gifts and an inheritance to live.
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Marx's last two houses were in what is now Maitland Park Road, replaced by featureless flats (with a brown plaque). He died in 1883.
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Ramsons - Bear Garlic - Allium ursinum by Carter's Brook
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Ball o'snakes.
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Vipara berus - Adder
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Vipara berus - Adder
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Vipara berus - Adder
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Adder
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Zigzag Elm sawfly, Aproceros leucopoda. High Barnet.