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  • Mistresses and Brothels

    Mistresses and Brothels

    According to Stella Margetson in her short history of St John’s Wood which she titled “Abode of Love and the ...
  • Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple

    Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple

    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 in St John's Wood - St John's Wood Court, Abraham Davis and Hercule Poirot

    The arrival of blocks of flats in St John's Wood - St John's Wood Court, Abraham Davis and Hercule Poirot

    The arrival of blocks of flats Mansion flats appeared in London at the end of the nineteenth century.  For example, Artillery ...
  • Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18

    Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18

    with special reference to St John’s Wood Zeppelins In 1900 the Germans began building Zeppelins – rigid steerable airships – and by ...
  • 5 Northwick Terrace & Agatha Christie

    5 Northwick Terrace & Agatha Christie

    Agatha Miller was born in 1890 into a wealthy family in Torquay, Devon. She received a home education and was ...
  • Hugh Johnson - Memories of Burghley House, Loudoun Road in the 1940s

    Hugh Johnson - Memories of Burghley House, Loudoun Road in the 1940s

    I’ve often wondered why the house where I was born had a name that suggests broad acres. Burghley House is ...
  • A snapshot view of St John's Wood in 1905

    A snapshot view of St John's Wood in 1905

    St John’s Wood has conservatories at the back of its houses, banks of geraniums along its garden walls, and sprinklers ...
  • Garden Nurseries

    Garden Nurseries

        The illustration at the top of this entry and the website is Ben George’s lithograph of Henderson’s Nursery or Horticultural ...
  • 62 Hamilton Terrace

    62 Hamilton Terrace

    In Charlotte Halliday’s account of living in the Wood in her childhood, she mentions that the family moved into 62 ...
  • Jacques Tissot (1836 - 1902)

    Jacques Tissot (1836 - 1902)

    James  (Jacques)  Tissot (1836 -1902) was an artist who had an Anglo-French career which was without parallel in the nineteenth century. ...
  • French composer visits friends in Hamilton Terrace in 1958

    French composer visits friends in Hamilton Terrace in 1958

    In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
  • Lex Volvo workshop 1983 remembered by Alan Tuppen

    Lex Volvo workshop 1983 remembered by Alan Tuppen

    Early visits to St John’s Wood My first acquaintance with St John’s Wood was when I stayed for a couple of ...
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