St John’s Wood Art School The school had modest beginnings in Elm Tree Road where in 1878 the Eyre estate granted ...
Alexis Soyer (1810 – 1858) The Reform Club Escaping from France during the 1830 Revolution, the French chef Alexis Soyer became the ...
Girlhood The daughter of racehorse trainer Harry Chisholm, who was a descendant of a family who had helped settle and explore ...
Leave Swiss Cottage station at Barclays Bank exit and you will see the Odeon cinema which was built by Oscar Deutsch, ...
The Boy Friend Anne Rogers was born in Liverpool in 1933 and began her stage career when she was fifteen. She ...
The suffragists of 1866 Women’s suffrage societies – groups who campaigned for the right to vote – began to emerge in ...
Albert Ketelbey was an English composer, conductor and pianist, perhaps best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music, ...
My name is Christos Dodanis and I am a self employed personal trainer currently based at Lords Gym in Saint ...
(Nicholas )Harold Lloyd Ridley was a surgeon at both St Thomas’ and Moorfields Eye Hospital specialising in ophthalmology. During WW2, Ridley ...
Katharine Goodson, born in Watford in 1875 , and known to her family as ‘Kaigee’, was an English pianist who ...
Sir Frederick Hoare and his wife Mary lived at 78 Hamilton Terrace during the 1960s. Frederick was a partner in ...
Alan Bates, born in 1934, was an actor who won a scholarship to RADA, studying with Albert Finney and Peter ...