HARISH PATEL DIRECTOR OF COURTENAY CHEMISTS Harish was born in Uganda, and as further education in that country was limited, he ...
Damian Watcyn Lewis was born in February 1971 in Clifton Hill, St John’s Wood, the eldest son of John Watcyn ...
Douglas William Jerrold was born in 1803 , the son of theatre manager Samuel Jerrold, and after two years in ...
(the young brother of Josephine Bacon, who earlier wrote about life in Avenue Lodge) I have early childhood memories of the ...
Childhood Ernest Howard Shepard was born at 55 Springfield Road St John’s Wood in 1876, the third child and second son ...
In 1971, my last year at Barrow Hill, a group of us got to go on an educational cruise around ...
Although Elizabeth Jane Howard (Jane) was brought up in Kensington, she often visited St John’s Wood as a child because ...
Emmanuel Church was built in Northwick Terrace in 1833/34 as a Chapel of Ease to Christ Church, Cosway Street. (It ...
On 27-29 November 2017, this year’s Year 5 intake from Barrow Hill Junior School and Westminster Cathedral Roman Catholic Primary ...
Eyre Arms Tavern, on the corner of Grove End Road and Wellington Road, was built in 1820 and opened in ...
My name is Christos Dodanis and I am a self employed personal trainer currently based at Lords Gym in Saint ...
In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
The illustration at the top of this entry and the website is Ben George’s lithograph of Henderson’s Nursery or Horticultural ...
George Blake 1922 – 2020 Born in Holland, he fought in the Resistance there until he was smuggled out of Europe ...
Gervase de Peyer (1926 – 2017 ) was one of the foremost clarinettists of his generation, with a flair for playing ...
Henry Cummings was an Irish baritone who studied at the Royal Academy of Music, then later with John Coates. He ...
On 20 November 2017 Father Anders Bergquist, Vicar of St John’s Wood, presented to the local community at St John’s ...
Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was probably the best known Jew in the English speaking world at the start of the ...
Jean Reddaway, née Brett, died peacefully on 23 July 2018, aged 94. For 55 years she was the beloved wife ...
In 1966 inexpensive accommodation in London was in very short supply and I would follow up adverts every day as ...
John Hutton John Hutton was born in Clyde, New Zealand in 1906 and came to England with his artist wife Helen ...
Artist John Minton (1917-1957) , a scion of the china-producing family, was a major figure in the neo-Romantic movement of ...
Joseph Holbrooke was a well known composer, conductor and pianist at the start of the 20th century, though his fame ...