Junction of Homer Row and the Old Marylebone Road - geograph

Homer Row is a street in the

Marylebone Marylebone (usually , also ) is an area in London, England, and is located in the City of Westminster. It is in Central London and part of the West End. Oxford Street forms its southern boundary. An ancient parish and latterly a metropo ...

district of the

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, London, that runs from Old Marylebone Road in the north to the junction of Crawford Place and

Crawford Street Crawford Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London. The street contains two grade II listed public houses. Location The street runs from the junction of Homer Row and Crawford Place in the west to the j ...

in the south. The street is one of those in the

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area with classical names, such as Cato Street,

Homer Street Homer Street is a quiet one-way street in the Marylebone neighbourhood of the City of Westminster. It runs from Old Marylebone Road in the north to Crawford Street in the south. The street is part of the Marylebone Ward of Westminster City Counci ...

, and Virgil Place. According to Gillian Bebbington, all four street names were inspired by Edward Homer who was a friend of

John Simon Harcourt John Simon Harcourt (14 December 1772 – 21 February 1810) of Ankerwycke, Buckinghamshire, was member of Parliament for Westbury 18 April 1800 - 1802. In 1791, Harcourt bought the manor house (now known as St. Dunstan's) at Lisson village near ...

who owned the land on which the streets were built.

Buildings

No. 1 Homer Row (207 Old Marylebone Road) is a

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with

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. Crawford Mansions, where the poet

T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biography''. New York: Oxford University ...

once lived, is located on the eastern side of the street on the corner with Crawford Street. A green plaque next to the Homer Row entrance to the building notes Eliot's former home. He lived at number 18 with his wife Vivienne from 1916 to 1918. During this time, Eliot was working as a teacher at

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is a co-educational, fee-charging, private day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate Pre-Preparato ...

where he taught future Poet Laureate

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. The western side of the street is wholly taken up by Abrar House, the home on the second floor of the High Commission for Antigua & Barbuda in London. The third floor of Abrar House is the High Commission of Belize in London.Home.
Belize High Commission London. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

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