Herbert Olivier(1861-1952) was the first Olivier to live in St John’s Wood. An artist, his painting Passion Flower was exhibited at ...
Miss Beatrice Hilda Belton, born in 1890, was a photographer active from the second decade of the twentieth century until ...
My name is Jennifer Peck (née Still) and I was born in September, 1944. My parents, John and Heather Still, ...
The site of 20 Abbey Road, one of the nine large houses originally built between Langford Place and Grove End ...
Stella Margetson lived at 15 Hamilton Terrace and died in St John’s Wood on 13 April 1992. Her career as ...
Extract from the Marylebone Vestry Minutes of March 22, 1877 To the Honourable the Vestry of the Parish of Saint Marylebone Gentlemen We ...
CROCKERS FOLLY This magnificent bar and restaurant in Aberdeen Place has an unusual name which arises from its history. Frank Crocker ...
A part of the Middlesex forest was a gift from Otho, son of William of Lilestone, to the Knights Templars. After ...
Lionel Brett (1913 – 2004) Lionel Brett decided to become an architect while studying for a history degree at Oxford where ...
Barbara’s early life Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert , a ...
Sir Beverley Baxter was a Canadian journalist who came to England to work for the Beaverbrook press, particularly the Daily ...
The first wave It is extremely difficult to find out how the Spanish flu epidemic affected St John’s Wood, or indeed ...
