But 100 years ago, the property where Romantic put John Keats once lived and wrote famous works, including Ode to a nightingale He was saved from potential development.
The story of how a group formed to buy the house before delivering it as a museum will be told in an etenaria exhibition.
The exhibitions include the first guide, which explained how the ‘Keats Memorial House’ had bone “assured for public use forever” along with Keats miniatures and his neighbor Fanny Braakne, with tufts containing their hair.
Duration of his stay with his friend Charles Brown, secretly committed himself to Fanny and experienced an effusion of creativity, writing to the famous Odas and Aman Sonets as Lucero.
“The house was lost in history for a while,” explains Shakespeare.
He adds: “Duration of his life Keats was stunned by the usual doubts of the creative, and the critics made fun of him.
“But his friends
The researchers discovered that Keats’ old home, Wentworth Place, was now known as Lawn Bank and private property.
But when Villa Wentworth’s adjacent house was demolished to give way to Wentworth’s mansions, it caused fears for historical property.
“It was sold, demolished and became a high intensity housing,” Hey added. “Although what now as Keats House was not directly on sale, that caused people to think that a treasure that could be lost with speculative developers.”
That led the local people, including the mayor of Hampstead, Alderman J Fraser, to form the Keats House Memorial Committee and raise £ 7,000 to buy it from the Whayy family, in addition to funds to establish a museum.
Taxpayers, including novelist Thomas Hardy, donated poems for the fund collection book John Keats Memorial Volume, and the academic Amyell helped to collect £ 2,700 from America.
Fanny Brawne’s relatives and Keats’s friend, Joseph Severn, attended the great inauguration.
“They brought articles and memories to show people, including a reliquary with a lock of hair,” Shakespeare said.
Delivering to Hampstead Borough Council before being tasks by the Corporation of the City of London in 1997, the camera has acted as a magnet for donations and artifacts to the poet.
Shakespeare says it was a vital part of Keats’s life and history: “He moved after an intense winter when he had his brother Tom (tuberculosis) and his older brother had gone to the United States.
“His friend said” Just come and live with me, “then the Brawne family moved to the door next door, had already been seen with Fanny and was attracted to her, and there was this almost instantaneous flowering of creativity that came out of him.
“The reason why people come here is that it was probably the only place where they felt comfort, friendship and inspiration of the natural heather environment. He had a circle of friends like Leigh Hot lived in the Valley of Health and published his first poem.
“They supported him and protected his reputation against a critical blow.
“The exhibition will go back in time to evoke the atmosphere of what the house would have the leg in 1925, with personal articles connected to the past and the stories about them.
“Local people saved the house and we want them to continue enjoying it in the future.”
The Keats House 100 exhibition will be held from May 11 to April 12, 2026. The entrance is included with the entrance to the house.
