I have been collecting Geoffrey Fletcher’s books about London for the past few years. I’d like to read a biography of the man but there doesn’t seem to be anything but the most basic information about the man on the web and I’m not sure where to find out more information.

I am planning to use this section of TheLondoni to gather together what I can find out about him and his works.

Geoffrey Fletcher on the left enjoying a cigarette and viewing an exhibition of his paintings and drawings

Although a northern lad, Fletcher came down to London to study art at the Slade and stayed, becoming obsessed by London’s nooks and crannies. He wrote lovingly – but never blindly – about the old city. In London At My Feet, he stated that:

“surely the greatest tribute to London was never a written one: it was the way “evacuated” people infiltrated back to town in the 1939-1945 war, long before it was safe to do so, simply because for them there really was no other place to live and so they returned to “resume life” as Doctor Johnson put it.”

I will link from this page to others:

Biological Timeline

Bibliography

Geoffrey Fletcher’s Islington