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  • 40 Hamilton Terrace, originally 17

    40 Hamilton Terrace, originally 17

    A house for artists and musicians
  • Abbey Road Studios

    Abbey Road Studios

    No 3 Abbey Road was built in 1828 and is the third oldest house on the Eyre estate, after 8 Elm ...
  • Agnes Nicholls - Lady Harty- 1876 - 1959

    Agnes Nicholls - Lady Harty- 1876 - 1959

    Soprano
  • Albert Ketelbey (1875-1959)

    Albert Ketelbey (1875-1959)

    Albert Ketelbey was an English composer, conductor and pianist, perhaps best known for his short  pieces of light orchestral music, ...
  • Beecham in the Wood

    Beecham in the Wood

      Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961)                       Sir Thomas Beecham had a predilection for North-west London, St John’s Wood in particular. In 1910 ...
  • Benjamin Britten 1913 - 1976

    Benjamin Britten 1913 - 1976

    Composer, conductor and pianist
  • Bernard Miles and Kirsten Flagstad

    Bernard Miles and Kirsten Flagstad

    In 1952 Asbjorn Lunde attended the opera Dido and Anaeas which was being performed, with Kirsten Flagstad in the title ...
  • Damian Lewis OBE

    Damian Lewis OBE

    Damian Watcyn Lewis was born in February 1971 in  Clifton  Hill, St John’s Wood, the eldest son of John Watcyn ...
  • Dora Labbette / Lisa Perli

    Dora Labbette / Lisa Perli

      Dora Labbette was a well-known and much admired successful concert and opera singer during the period 1920/1943. She is best ...
  • Florence Windebank - Blenheim Terrace 1902 onwards

    Florence Windebank - Blenheim Terrace 1902 onwards

    Florence Windebank
  • French composer visits friends in Hamilton Terrace in 1958

    French composer visits friends in Hamilton Terrace in 1958

    In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
  • George A.T. Weldon 1908 - 1963

    George A.T. Weldon 1908 - 1963

    Conductor
  • Gervase de Peyer ( 1926-2017) and Langford Place

    Gervase de Peyer ( 1926-2017) and Langford Place

      Gervase de Peyer (1926 – 2017  ) was one of the foremost  clarinettists  of his generation, with a flair for playing ...
  • Henry Cummings 1906-1989

    Henry Cummings 1906-1989

    Henry Cummings was an Irish baritone who studied at the Royal Academy of Music, then later with John Coates. He ...
  • Humphrey Searle  1915 - 1982

    Humphrey Searle 1915 - 1982

    Composer
  • John Boosey 1832 - 1893

    John Boosey 1832 - 1893

    'The Lost Chord'
  • Judy Hame - Grove End Gardens  1935 - 2015

    Judy Hame - Grove End Gardens 1935 - 2015

    Judy Hame
  • Katharine Goodson - pianist

    Katharine Goodson - pianist

    Katharine Goodson, born in Watford in 1875 ,  and known to her family as ‘Kaigee’, was an English pianist  who ...
  • Louise Kirkby Lunn 1873 - 1930

    Louise Kirkby Lunn 1873 - 1930

    contralto
  • Margaret Hubicki MBE

    Margaret Hubicki MBE

    Born in Hampstead in 1915, she was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony who invented the colour staff ...
  • Mermaid Theatre

    Mermaid Theatre

    the creation of Bernard and Josephine Miles
  • Mrs Emmie Tillett (1898 - 1982 )

    Mrs Emmie Tillett (1898 - 1982 )

    Mrs Emmie Tillett lived at 11 Elm Tree Road from 1949 until her death in 1982 .( Her charming house ...
  • Music in the Wood

    Music in the Wood

    Musicians & music makers who lived here in 19th & 20 C
  • Musicians and Artists  meeting in the Wood

    Musicians and Artists meeting in the Wood

    There are several instances of artists and  musicians coming together. For instance the Italian Sir Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) was a composer of salon ...
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