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  • 14 Hamilton Terrace

    14 Hamilton Terrace

    14 Hamilton Terrace is the home of Dr Ursula Jones OBE, the widow of the late Philip Jones, the renowned trumpeter ...
  • 1976 We were having a heatwave

    1976 We were having a heatwave

    Five trains trapped The famous heatwave of 1976 began 2 weeks before 23 June when the temperature was approaching 100F and ...
  • 34 Hamilton Terrace history

    34 Hamilton Terrace history

    This semi-detached house on the east side of Hamilton Terrace was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century, evidence ...
  • 36  (originally 15) Hamilton Terrace

    36 (originally 15) Hamilton Terrace

        The 1871 Census records the house being occupied by Henry Stacy Marks, aged 41, with his wife, two daughters and ...
  • 5 Northwick Terrace & Agatha Christie

    5 Northwick Terrace & Agatha Christie

    Agatha Miller was born in 1890 into a wealthy family in Torquay, Devon. She received a home education and was ...
  • 52 Blenheim Terrace

    52 Blenheim Terrace

    a memoir
  • 62 Hamilton Terrace

    62 Hamilton Terrace

    In Charlotte Halliday’s account of living in the Wood in her childhood, she mentions that the family moved into 62 ...
  • A snapshot view of St John's Wood in 1905

    A snapshot view of St John's Wood in 1905

    St John’s Wood has conservatories at the back of its houses, banks of geraniums along its garden walls, and sprinklers ...
  • Abercorn Place

    Abercorn Place

    Vintage street sign
  • Actors & Actresses who lived in St Johns Wood

    Actors & Actresses who lived in St Johns Wood

    Oscar Asche (1871-1936) of  22 Elm Tree Road, was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, ...
  • Admiral Sir John Lawford KCB (1756- 1842)

    Admiral Sir John Lawford KCB (1756- 1842)

    John Lawford was born in 1756 and entered the Royal Navy at a young age, serving during the American War ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • Americans in Hamilton Terrace

    Americans in Hamilton Terrace

    The Brinton Coxe family was relocating from Abu Dhabi to London at the end of 1974. Therefore, essential to find ...
  • 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 ...
  • Arabella Lennox Boyd - garden designer

    Arabella Lennox Boyd - garden designer

    Arabella Lennox Boyd is a landscape and garden designer, 6 times a Gold Medal winner at Chelsea Flower Show, trustee of ...
  • 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 ...
  • BEL ABBEY CRICKET CLUB 1950s

    BEL ABBEY CRICKET CLUB 1950s

    BEL ABBEY cricket club was formed  around 1948 and most of their games were played at Canons Park.  I presume ...
  • Ben Warsop's bat factory near Lord's

    Ben Warsop's bat factory near Lord's

    Warsop’s bat factory was tucked in behind a block of flats on part of the second Lord’s site after the ...
  • Benches in St John's Wood Church Gardens

    Benches in St John's Wood Church Gardens

      The burial ground was used from 1814 to 1855 when the St Marylebone Cemetery was opened.  There are thought to ...
  • Brian A Johnston CBE, MC  (1912-1994)

    Brian A Johnston CBE, MC (1912-1994)

    Brian Johnston, who was nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author and television presenter. He married Pauline Tozer in ...
  • Chefs in St Johns Wood

    Chefs in St Johns Wood

    Alexis Soyer (1810 – 1858)  The Reform Club Escaping from France during the 1830 Revolution,  the French chef Alexis Soyer became the ...
  • Classmates Barrow Hill 1971

    Classmates Barrow Hill 1971

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