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  • St John's Wood - an abode of spies

    St John's Wood - an abode of spies

      Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Edith Tudor Hart In August 1934  two Cambridge graduates  met for supper in a flat at ...
  • Women artists in St John's Wood

    Women artists in St John's Wood

    Emma Soyer née Jones  1813 – 1842 Emma Jones achieved considerable popularity as a painter, chiefly of portraits.  Born in London ...
  • Dora Labbette / Lisa Perli

    Dora Labbette / Lisa Perli

      Dora Labbette was a well-known and much admired successful concert and opera singer during the period 1920/1943. She is best ...
  • Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras AC, CH, CBE

    Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras AC, CH, CBE

    Charles Mackerras was born in 1925 in New York and became the first Australian conductor to be chief conductor of ...
  • The Olivier family in St John's Wood - various connections

    The Olivier family in St John's Wood - various connections

    Herbert Olivier(1861-1952) was the first Olivier to live in St John’s Wood.   An artist, his painting Passion Flower  was exhibited at ...
  • Beatrice Belton, photographer

    Beatrice Belton, photographer

    Miss Beatrice Hilda Belton, born in 1890, was a photographer  active from the second decade of the twentieth century until ...
  • Jennifer Peck's memories of a childhood in St John's Wood

    Jennifer Peck's memories of a childhood in St John's Wood

    My name is Jennifer Peck (née Still) and I was born in September, 1944. My parents, John and Heather Still, ...
  • Abbey Road villas between Langford Place and Grove End Road and what became of them

    Abbey Road villas between Langford Place and Grove End Road and what became of them

    The site of 20 Abbey Road, one of the nine large houses  originally built between Langford Place and Grove End ...
  • Stella Margetson (1912-1992)

    Stella Margetson (1912-1992)

          Stella Margetson lived at 15 Hamilton Terrace and died in St John’s Wood on 13 April 1992.  Her career as ...
  • Trees in Hamilton Terrace

    Trees in Hamilton Terrace

    Extract from the Marylebone Vestry Minutes of March 22, 1877 To the Honourable the Vestry of the Parish of Saint Marylebone Gentlemen We ...
  • Crockers Folly

    Crockers Folly

    CROCKERS  FOLLY                   This magnificent bar and restaurant in Aberdeen Place has an unusual name which arises from its history. Frank Crocker ...
  • St John’s Wood - How it got its name

    St John’s Wood - How it got its name

      A part of the Middlesex forest was a gift from Otho, son of William of Lilestone, to the Knights Templars. After ...
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