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  • Memoriesof a childhood in St John's Wood

    Memoriesof a childhood in St John's Wood

    My name is Jennifer Peck (née Still) and I was born in September, 1944. My parents, John and Heather Still, ...
  • Abbey Road villas between Langford Place and Grove End Road and what became of them

    Abbey Road villas between Langford Place and Grove End Road and what became of them

    The site of 20 Abbey Road, one of the nine large houses  originally built between Langford Place and Grove End ...
  • Stella Margetson (1912-1992)

    Stella Margetson (1912-1992)

          Stella Margetson lived at 15 Hamilton Terrace and died in St John’s Wood on 13 April 1992.  Her career as ...
  • Trees in Hamilton Terrace

    Trees in Hamilton Terrace

    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

    Crockers Folly

    CROCKERS  FOLLY                   This magnificent bar and restaurant in Aberdeen Place has an unusual name which arises from its history. Frank Crocker ...
  • St John’s Wood - How it got its name

    St John’s Wood - How it got its name

      A part of the Middlesex forest was a gift from Otho, son of William of Lilestone, to the Knights Templars. After ...
  • Lionel Brett and 5 Loudoun Road

    Lionel Brett and 5 Loudoun Road

    Lionel Brett (1913 – 2004) Lionel Brett decided to become an architect while studying for a history degree at Oxford where ...
  • Barbara Hepworth 1903 - 1975   her early career and St John's Wood

    Barbara Hepworth 1903 - 1975 her early career and St John's Wood

    Barbara’s early life Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert , a ...
  • Sir Beverley Baxter (1891 - 1964)

    Sir Beverley Baxter (1891 - 1964)

    Sir Beverley Baxter  was a Canadian journalist who came to England to work for the Beaverbrook press, particularly the Daily ...
  • Spanish flu and St John's Wood 1918 - 20

    Spanish flu and St John's Wood 1918 - 20

    The first wave It is extremely difficult to find out how the Spanish flu epidemic affected St John’s Wood, or indeed ...
  • Memories of living in Grove End Road, 1936-39

    Memories of living in Grove End Road, 1936-39

    Death of the King 1936 During the winter of 1936/7, my family, consisting of my parents, myself, younger sister and nanny, ...
  • Eileen Alexander  1917 - 1986 - memories of WW2 from Love in the Blitz

    Eileen Alexander 1917 - 1986 - memories of WW2 from Love in the Blitz

    Eileen Alexander , the 21 year old daughter of  Alec Alexander, (a Cambridge educated Cairo barrister married to  Vicky Mosseri  ...
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