Sir Harold (Harry) Himsworth, born in Huddersfield in 1905, was a distinguished clinical scientist. He married Charlotte Gray in 1932 and ...
BEGINNINGS IN LODGE ROAD IN THE 1980s Michael Tanna opened his shop at 10 Lodge Road in 1980. He took the ...
St John’s Wood Road and Marlborough Road stations The underground railway was one of the reasons St John’s Wood remained more ...
Melina Place which is a short street running westwards off Grove End Road, has had a mixed history of residents. As ...
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 ...
