Gerald Durrell honoured with blue plaque at childhood home in London

My Family and Other Animals author’s Dulwich home is a long way from the Corfu of his books but was shared with a ferocious dog

Gerald Durrell is being memorialised with a blue plaque – but not amid the olive groves and sandy beaches of Corfu. Instead, a marker from English Heritage is being installed at the My Family and Other Animals author’s former family home in south London.

The plaque will mark Durrell’s first permanent home in England: 43 Alleyn Park in Dulwich. Durrell, who was born in India in 1925, moved to England in 1928 with his mother after his father’s death. The family lived in Dulwich for two years, “sheltering behind a grim, dropping, choking laurel hedge”, as Durrell put it, according to Michael Haag’s book The Durrells of Corfu.

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