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Thank you for rescuing tag.
Speaking of rescuing, according to Orwell's adopted son, the house was destroyed in 1944, before Animal Farm had been published and Orwell returned to the house to try and find the manuscript. Luckily he found it and sent the crumpled remains to TS Eliot. Orwell eventually got it published a year later after being turned down by many publishers.
The same rocket, by coincidence, also destroyed the school where AA Milne lived some years earlier on the same street, the same school where HG Wells taught science for a year in fact.
https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/tag/orwell/
https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/a-a-milne-nw6