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  • A St John's Wood house in 1950

    A St John's Wood house in 1950

    He told me about his father’s house in St John’s Wood. It was rather large and had a garden full ...
  • Books that feature St John's Wood

    Books that feature St John's Wood

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  • Boys from the Wood Part Two (E-Book)

    Boys from the Wood Part Two (E-Book)

    Follow up from "Boys from the Wood" Book One
  • Chorus of disapproval

    Chorus of disapproval

    People who dislike St John's Wood in fact and fiction
  • Clifton Hill - writers

    Clifton Hill - writers

    in the first fifty years
  • Disraeli's Young Duke 1828

    Disraeli's Young Duke 1828

    An early admirer of the semi-rural territory north of the Marylebone Road was Benjamin Disraeli’s fictional Duke of St James’ ...
  • Dornford Yates, novelist, 1885 - 1960

    Dornford Yates, novelist, 1885 - 1960

    (Cecil William Mercer)
  • Douglas William Jerrold (1803 -1853) the man who named the Crystal Palace

    Douglas William Jerrold (1803 -1853) the man who named the Crystal Palace

    Douglas William Jerrold was born in 1803 , the son of theatre manager Samuel Jerrold, and after two years in ...
  • Dreamland - the Regent's Park

    Dreamland - the Regent's Park

    Elizabeth Barrett's Arcady
  • E. H. Shepard OBE MC (1879 – 1976)

    E. H. Shepard OBE MC (1879 – 1976)

    Childhood Ernest Howard Shepard was born at 55 Springfield Road St John’s Wood in 1876, the third child and second son ...
  • Edmund Yates - memories of the early days

    Edmund Yates - memories of the early days

      Edmund Yates (1831 – 1894) was a novelist and dramatist, whose father had been an actor and theatre manager and his ...
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-2014 - novelist

    Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-2014 - novelist

      Although Elizabeth Jane Howard (Jane) was brought up in Kensington, she often visited St John’s Wood as a child because ...
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard 1924-2014 - novelist

    Elizabeth Jane Howard 1924-2014 - novelist

    1923 - 2014
  • Elm Tree Road from 1870s to the end of WW1

    Elm Tree Road from 1870s to the end of WW1

    1868 Map An 1868 map shows that many of the Elm Tree Road houses had been extended to give more accommodation ...
  • Elm Tree Road until the 1870s

    Elm Tree Road until the 1870s

    Ideals of the Eyre estate Elm Tree Road epitomised the ideals of the Eyre estate – seclusion, love of nature and ...
  • Famous Ladies who have lived or live in Hamilton Terrace in 20th C

    Famous Ladies who have lived or live in Hamilton Terrace in 20th C

    3 Hamilton Terrace   Marjorie Proops . Agony aunt. 8 Hamilton Terrace   Lee Remick.  actress 30 Hamilton Terrace  Yolanda Sonnabend  artist 34 Hamilton ...
  • George Eliot

    George Eliot

    born Mary Anne Evans
  • Hamish Hamilton

    Hamish Hamilton

    A publisher in the 'Wood'
  • Hill Road

    Hill Road

    in fact and fiction
  • Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple

    Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple

    Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was probably the best known Jew in the English speaking world at the start of the ...
  • Katherine Mansfield and St John's Wood

    Katherine Mansfield and St John's Wood

    Katherine Mansfield and St John’s Wood   Gerri Kimber     The modernist short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, frequented or ...
  • Louis MacNeice in St John's Wood

    Louis MacNeice in St John's Wood

    Louis MacNeice (1908 – 1963) was an Irish poet who had been at Marlborough School, sharing a study with Anthony ...
  • Lunatics

    Lunatics

    how facts and fiction intermingle in St John's Wood
  • Marie Leighton and her family in Abbey Road before World War 1

    Marie Leighton and her family in Abbey Road before World War 1

    Vallombrosa at 40 Abbey Road “was satisfactorily invisible from the road. The solid garden gate and the high brick wall were ...
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