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ID: 9654427

Title: Plas Wilmot, Weston Lane, Oswestry

Description: Plas Wilmot, Weston Lane, Oswestry (taken from the back garden)

Connected by: Helen55380

Additional: Wilfred Owen was born at Plas Wilmot. There is a blue plaque under the window of the bedroom where he was born; at the time the photograph was taken, it was my grandparents' bedroom. The blue plaque states:Wilfred Owen - Poet - Born here - 18th March 1893.When the plaque was installed, my grandmother was worried that "people will want to come in the garden and look at it", because at that time blue plaques were installed as near to the place of birth as possible, and in this case, it meant the back of the house. My mother (her daughter) recalls that this never happened!The photograph was taken by my mother in the summer of 1965. [photo copyright H White, free use granted to Lives of the First World War]