Wooden Wall Plaque Quotes

When she came to the first room with the number 420 decorating the wooden plaque on the wall to its right, she gave a small smile.

It was an oblong, two-storey building with crumbling, dirty-red roof tiles and mauve plasterwork on the outside walls that had fallen off in chunks. Across it the faded slogan ‘Long Live the Albanian Communist Party’ was flaking off. It now had a wooden plaque on the door reading ‘Shënomadh Church’: an epitaph for the ideology that had claimed Albania as ‘the world’s first atheist state’, thought Jude.

In the back bar of the Eagle and Child in St Giles’, the two men sat and drank their beer, and Lewis found himself reading and reading again the writing on the wooden plaque fixed to the wall behind Morse’s head: C.S. LEWIS, his brother, W.H. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and other friends met every Tuesday morning, between the years 1939–1962 in the back room of this their favourite pub. These men, popularly known as the ‘Inklings’, met here to drink beer and to discuss, among other things, the books they were writing.