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  • 24 - 36 Finchley Road - a group of houses 1839 - 1970s

    24 - 36 Finchley Road - a group of houses 1839 - 1970s

      Villas on the Finchley Road Devonshire Villa (28 Finchley Road) was built by John Wright Treeby , a builder from Dorset ...
  • Abbey Road villas between Langford Place and Grove End Road and what became of them

    Abbey Road villas between Langford Place and Grove End Road and what became of them

    The site of 20 Abbey Road, one of the nine large houses  originally built between Langford Place and Grove End ...
  • Adrienne Corri 1931-2016

    Adrienne Corri 1931-2016

    Actress Adrienne Corri was born in Glasgow, the daughter of an English mother and an Italian father, who ran the ...
  • Angela Lansbury 1925 - 2022

    Angela Lansbury 1925 - 2022

    Angela Brigid Lansbury  DBE 16 Oct 1925-2022 Her family Angela Lansbury was the daughter of Edgar Lansbury, a timber merchant making veneers ...
  • Anne Rogers - actress, dancer, singer

    Anne Rogers - actress, dancer, singer

    The Boy Friend Anne Rogers was born in Liverpool in 1933 and began her stage career when she was fifteen. She ...
  • 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 ...
  • Clifton Hill - theatrical connections

    Clifton Hill - theatrical connections

    the first fifty years
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Elsie Rose Morgan, dancer and actress(1883 -1946)

    Elsie Rose Morgan, dancer and actress(1883 -1946)

    Elsie Rose Morgan was the daughter of chimney sweep Edward Reuben Morgan and was brought up with seven siblings in ...
  • Lee Remick (actress)

    Lee Remick (actress)

    Lee Remick in a publicity portrait for the film ‘Telefon’, 1977. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)     Lee Remick lived at 8 ...
  • Mary Malcolm 1918 - 2010 Television Announcer

    Mary Malcolm 1918 - 2010 Television Announcer

    Early life (Helen) Mary Malcolm was born  on 15 March 1918 and brought up in Scotland, the daughter of Sir Ian ...
  • Memories of the original Mermaid Theatre

    Memories of the original Mermaid Theatre

    How soon people forget that the original Mermaid Theatre was founded in St. John’s Wood by the actor Bernard Miles ...
  • Mermaid Theatre

    Mermaid Theatre

    the creation of Bernard and Josephine Miles
  • Owen Nares 1888-1943

    Owen Nares 1888-1943

    actor manager
  • Percy Cahill, actor (1870 - )

    Percy Cahill, actor (1870 - )

        Percy Cahill  (born Edgar Percy Cahill) was a comic actor, singer and dancer and toured all over the UK.   He ...
  • Ronnie Corbett (1930 - 2016) in St Johns Wood

    Ronnie Corbett (1930 - 2016) in St Johns Wood

    When he was a struggling young actor Ronnie Corbett lived in the basement of a house at 48 Avenue Road, ...
  • Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Alan Bates was an English actor who became well known in the 1960s. He was born in 1934 and won a ...
  • Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Alan Bates, born in 1934, was an actor who won a scholarship to RADA, studying with Albert Finney and Peter ...
  • Sir Charles Wyndham 1837-1919

    Sir Charles Wyndham 1837-1919

    actor manager
  • The Olivier family in St John's Wood - various connections

    The Olivier family in St John's Wood - various connections

    Herbert Olivier(1861-1952) was the first Olivier to live in St John’s Wood.   An artist, his painting Passion Flower  was exhibited at ...
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