According to Stella Margetson in her short history of St John’s Wood which she titled “Abode of Love and the ...
Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was probably the best known Jew in the English speaking world at the start of the ...
The arrival of blocks of flats Mansion flats appeared in London at the end of the nineteenth century. For example, Artillery ...
with special reference to St John’s Wood Zeppelins In 1900 the Germans began building Zeppelins – rigid steerable airships – and by ...
Agatha Miller was born in 1890 into a wealthy family in Torquay, Devon. She received a home education and was ...
I’ve often wondered why the house where I was born had a name that suggests broad acres. Burghley House is ...
St John’s Wood has conservatories at the back of its houses, banks of geraniums along its garden walls, and sprinklers ...
The illustration at the top of this entry and the website is Ben George’s lithograph of Henderson’s Nursery or Horticultural ...
In Charlotte Halliday’s account of living in the Wood in her childhood, she mentions that the family moved into 62 ...
James (Jacques) Tissot (1836 -1902) was an artist who had an Anglo-French career which was without parallel in the nineteenth century. ...
In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
Early visits to St John’s Wood My first acquaintance with St John’s Wood was when I stayed for a couple of ...
