Joseph Holbrooke was a well known composer, conductor and pianist at the start of the 20th century, though his fame ...
Oswald Birley was born in New Zealand while his parents were travelling on a world tour and his father became ...
Springfield Road Like my brothers and sister before me, I was born at the Avenue Clinic in Avenue Road near Regents ...
Marie-Louise Motesiczky 1906-1996 Artist Marie-Louise Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906 and studied and practised painting. She came to England ...
Actress Adrienne Corri was born in Glasgow, the daughter of an English mother and an Italian father, who ran the ...
In 1971, my last year at Barrow Hill, a group of us got to go on an educational cruise around ...
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 was destroyed by fire on the night of Thursday 26 January 2023. Eighty firefighters were deployed ...
Childhood Ernest Howard Shepard was born at 55 Springfield Road St John’s Wood in 1876, the third child and second son ...
Northern Roots – Manchester Mills Charles Dickens founded the radical London paper, The Daily News, in 1846 and hired William Hepworth ...
Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE 16 Oct 1925-2022 Her family Angela Lansbury was the daughter of Edgar Lansbury, a timber merchant making veneers ...
