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Two dark panelled front doors on a brick building, separated by a white pillar featuring a blue plaque reading 19-20 Portugal Place.

19-20 Portugal Place

19 – 20 Portugal Place

History of 19 - 20 Portugal Place

1881

In 1881 there was a Hardy living at no.4 Portugal Place


1891

(19) vacant

(20) Hardy


1901

(19)

Henry W Constable, 43, laundry engineer, b Cambridge

(20)

Caroline Leach, 35, lodging house keeper, b Cottenham


1913

(19) Walter Andrews, painter

(20) vacant


1962 (19/20)

Black and white portrait of an elderly man with white hair, hand to chin, against a background of bookshelves and a globe.

Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick, 1962 Nobel prize for medicine with Maurice Wilkins and James Watson

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  • nobel prize

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