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  • 33 Hamilton Terrace

    33 Hamilton Terrace

    In the 1980s this large house on the west side of Hamilton Terrace was  the residence of the Senegal Ambassador ...
  • 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 ...
  • 39 Circus Road

    39 Circus Road

      From”Spilling the beans” by Clarissa Dickson Wright When I was three months  old we moved into 39 Circus Road, St John’s ...
  • 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 ...
  • 64 Marlborough Place

    64 Marlborough Place

      In 1975 there was a huge drama in the Wood, remembered by few 45 years on,  over the conversion of ...
  • 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
  • Abercorn Place

    Abercorn Place

    6a Abercorn Place which is now 2a Nugent Terrace, was the studio house in the garden of the Manor House, 6 Abercorn ...
  • 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 ...
  • Alexis and Emma Soyer

    Alexis and Emma Soyer

    Alexis Soyer (1810 – 1858) Emma Soyer nee Jones (1813 – 1842) The Reform Club Escaping from France during the 1830 Revolution,  ...
  • Anna Neagle - actress

    Anna Neagle - actress

      Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox DBE, better known as Anna Neagle, was born in 1904 as Florence Marjorie Robertson. The name Neagle ...
  • Artists and the roads they lived in during 19th & 20th Centuries

    Artists and the roads they lived in during 19th & 20th Centuries

    Where the date when the artist lived at the address is known, this is given after the road. Julian Phelps Allan ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Evans - Church watcher and  Chamber choir member

    Brian Evans - Church watcher and Chamber choir member

        Brian has lived in St John’s Wood since the 1960s. He worked as a civil servant, and since he retired ...
  • Charles Bradlaugh

    Charles Bradlaugh

    Charles  Bradlaugh was born in 1833 and died in 1891.He was an English political activist and an atheist. He was President ...
  • Childhood in NW8 by Charlotte Halliday

    Childhood in NW8 by Charlotte Halliday

    When we moved back to London after the War, I was given Beatrice Curtis Brown’s enchanting book Southwards from Swiss Cottage. The ...
  • Childhood in St John's Wood - extracts from "Southwards from Swiss Cottage"

    Childhood in St John's Wood - extracts from "Southwards from Swiss Cottage"

        “We lived in a large square early-Victorian house  in St John’s Wood, joined , like a Siamese twin, to another ...
  • Courtenay chemists

    Courtenay chemists

    HARISH PATEL DIRECTOR OF COURTENAY CHEMISTS Harish was born in Uganda, and as further education in that country was limited, he ...
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