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  • St John's Wood Art School

    St John's Wood Art School

    St John’s Wood Art School The school had modest beginnings in Elm Tree Road  where  in 1878 the Eyre estate granted ...
  • Chefs in St Johns Wood

    Chefs in St Johns Wood

    Alexis Soyer (1810 – 1858)  The Reform Club Escaping from France during the 1830 Revolution,  the French chef Alexis Soyer became the ...
  • Sheila Chisholm (1895 - 1967)  - the "Sheila" from Australia who fascinated British society and lived at 82 Hamilton Terrace

    Sheila Chisholm (1895 - 1967) - the "Sheila" from Australia who fascinated British society and lived at 82 Hamilton Terrace

    Girlhood The daughter of racehorse trainer Harry Chisholm, who was a descendant of a family who had helped settle and explore ...
  • Spies route

    Spies route

    Leave Swiss Cottage station at Barclays Bank exit and you will see the Odeon cinema which was built by Oscar Deutsch, ...
  • Anne Rogers - actress, dancer, singer

    Anne Rogers - actress, dancer, singer

    The Boy Friend Anne Rogers was born in Liverpool in 1933 and began her stage career when she was fifteen. She ...
  • Pioneer suffragists and suffragettes in St John's Wood

    Pioneer suffragists and suffragettes in St John's Wood

    The suffragists of 1866 Women’s suffrage societies – groups who campaigned for the right to vote – began to emerge in ...
  • Albert Ketelbey (1875-1959)

    Albert Ketelbey (1875-1959)

    Albert Ketelbey was an English composer, conductor and pianist, perhaps best known for his short  pieces of light orchestral music, ...
  • FITT and fitness

    FITT and fitness

    My name is Christos Dodanis and I am a self employed personal trainer currently based at Lords Gym in Saint ...
  • Sir Harold Ridley 1906 - 2001 -pioneer of cataracts

    Sir Harold Ridley 1906 - 2001 -pioneer of cataracts

      (Nicholas )Harold Lloyd Ridley was a surgeon at both St Thomas’ and Moorfields Eye Hospital specialising in ophthalmology. During  WW2, Ridley ...
  • Katharine Goodson - pianist

    Katharine Goodson - pianist

    Katharine Goodson, born in Watford in 1875 ,  and known to her family as ‘Kaigee’, was an English pianist  who ...
  • Lady Hoare and the thalidomide story

    Lady Hoare and the thalidomide story

    Sir Frederick Hoare and his wife Mary lived at 78 Hamilton Terrace during the 1960s.  Frederick was a partner in ...
  • Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Alan Bates, born in 1934, was an actor who won a scholarship to RADA, studying with Albert Finney and Peter ...
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