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  • Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958)

    Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958)

    Joseph Holbrooke was a well known composer, conductor and pianist at the start of the 20th century,  though his fame ...
  • Sir Oswald Birley  MC RA ROI (1880 - 1952)

    Sir Oswald Birley MC RA ROI (1880 - 1952)

      Oswald Birley was born in New Zealand while his parents were travelling on a  world tour and his father  became ...
  • Memories of a childhood in Springfield Road

    Memories of a childhood in Springfield Road

    Springfield Road Like my brothers and sister before me, I was born at the Avenue Clinic in Avenue Road near Regents ...
  • Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906 - 1996)

    Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906 - 1996)

    Marie-Louise Motesiczky  1906-1996 Artist Marie-Louise  Motesiczky  was born in Vienna in 1906 and studied and practised painting.   She came to England ...
  • 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 ...
  • Educational cruise with Barrow Hill School on SSNevasa 1971

    Educational cruise with Barrow Hill School on SSNevasa 1971

    In 1971, my last year at Barrow Hill, a group of us got to go on an educational cruise around ...
  • Classmates Barrow Hill 1971

    Classmates Barrow Hill 1971

  • Swinging St John’s Wood in the early 1970s

    Swinging St John’s Wood in the early 1970s

    These are scenes from my 10th or 11th birthday party on the Abbey Road Estate, either 1970 or 71. We ...
  • St Mark's Hamilton Terrace - the destruction of a listed church

    St Mark's Hamilton Terrace - the destruction of a listed church

      St Mark’s Hamilton terrace was destroyed by fire on the night of Thursday 26 January 2023.  Eighty firefighters were deployed ...
  • E. H. Shepard OBE MC (1879 – 1976)

    E. H. Shepard OBE MC (1879 – 1976)

    Childhood Ernest Howard Shepard was born at 55 Springfield Road St John’s Wood in 1876, the third child and second son ...
  • William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879)Victorian Writer and Traveller: An Adopted Child of St. John’s Wood.

    William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879)Victorian Writer and Traveller: An Adopted Child of St. John’s Wood.

    Northern Roots – Manchester Mills Charles Dickens founded the radical London paper, The Daily News, in 1846 and hired William Hepworth ...
  • 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 ...
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