Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
The view along Great Ormond Street
Main entrance to Great Ormond Street Hospital
St Christopher's Chapel in Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Peter Pan statue at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Diarmuid Byron O'Connor
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300Â million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".
Dahl in 1954
At age 10 with his sisters Alfhild, Else and Asta. Cardiff, 1927.
Mrs Pratchett's former sweet shop in Llandaff, Cardiff, has a blue plaque dedicated to Dahl. His autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood recalls the prank he and his friends played on her in a jar of gobstoppers.
Repton School in Derbyshire which Dahl attended from 1929 to 1934