Villas on the Finchley Road Devonshire Villa (28 Finchley Road) was built by John Wright Treeby , a builder from Dorset ...
This house was built in 1841 when it was numbered as 69 Hamilton Terrace. The first occupant was a young solicitor ...
6a Abercorn Place which is now 2a Nugent Terrace, was the studio house in the garden of the Manor House, 6 Abercorn ...
Harrow School Estate meets Greville Estate
The Close runs south to north off St John’s Wood Road, to the east of Hamilton Terrace. It was part of ...
Sir Frederick Hoare and Lady Mary Hoare lived at 78 Hamilton Terrace during the 1960s. Sir Frederick was Lord Mayor ...
Melina Place which is a short street running westwards off Grove End Road, has had a mixed history of residents. As ...
I lived with my family at 14 Langford Place from 1946 until 1955.Our landlady was Dame Laura Knight who lived ...
According to Stella Margetson in her short history of St John’s Wood which she titled “Abode of Love and the ...
Apparently there are 100 post boxes in St John’s Wood. They have been in use since 1852 and originally green, ...
Sir Harold (Harry) Himsworth, born in Huddersfield in 1905, was a distinguished clinical scientist. He married Charlotte Gray in 1932 and ...
A number of local street names are decidedly sylvan – such as Acacia and Elm Tree. Others have a Scottish ...
Some of the shops and flats in St John’s Wood High Street and the side roads have changed very little ...
St Marylebone Almshouses: their origins The history of almshouses and the provision they have made for the elderly poor goes back ...
