Was John Keats’s poetry a form of medicine? Here at the John Keats Plaque, we remember the words etched in stone, commemorating the poet who once resided within these very walls. The John Keats Plaque marks the house where Keats, a luminary of the Romantic era, lived and penned some of his most moving verses. He wasn’t just a poet, though. Keats trained as an apothecary, a precursor to modern-day pharmacists. The inscription on the plaque, installed in 1896, simply reads “JOHN KEATS, POET, LIVED IN THIS HOUSE. B: 1795. D: 1821.” It’s a stark reminder of his short, yet impactful life, a life that intertwined the beauty of language with the pursuit of healing.
Southfields Methodist Church
Curiosity stirred within the heart of Southfields as a new chapter began. Southfields Methodist Church held its first public service