Alan Bates, born in 1934, was an actor who won a scholarship to RADA, studying with Albert Finney and Peter ...
Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Edith Tudor Hart In August 1934 two Cambridge graduates met for supper in a flat at ...
Emma Soyer née Jones (1813 – 1842) Emma Jones achieved considerable popularity as a painter, chiefly of portraits. Born in London ...
Dora Labbette was a well-known and much admired successful concert and opera singer during the period 1920/1943. She is best ...
Charles Mackerras was born in 1925 in New York and became the first Australian conductor to be chief conductor of ...
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 ...
