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  • History of the police station in St John's Wood including  David Niccol's Memories of serving  there at the end of the 20th century

    History of the police station in St John's Wood including David Niccol's Memories of serving there at the end of the 20th century

    St John’s Wood police station in New Street (Portland Town) was established by the time of the 1851 census  when ...
  • Trying to trace my mother from a wartime photo

    Trying to trace my mother from a wartime photo

    I am trying to trace anyone who knew my mother, Sylvia Norgrove. I am her daughter and was born on ...
  • Childhood in NW8 by Charlotte Halliday

    Childhood in NW8 by Charlotte Halliday

    When we moved back to London after the War, I was given Beatrice Curtis Brown’s enchanting book Southwards from Swiss Cottage. The ...
  • Childhood in St John's Wood - extracts from "Southwards from Swiss Cottage"

    Childhood in St John's Wood - extracts from "Southwards from Swiss Cottage"

        “We lived in a large square early-Victorian house  in St John’s Wood, joined , like a Siamese twin, to another ...
  • Memories of St John’s Wood in the late 1940s

    Memories of St John’s Wood in the late 1940s

      Dyson Heydon Mrs Leaver asked me to set down my memories of St John’s Wood. I lived there at four addresses ...
  • Benches in St John's Wood Church Gardens

    Benches in St John's Wood Church Gardens

        The burial ground was used from 1814 to 1855 when the St Marylebone Cemetery was opened.  There are thought to ...
  • Brian Evans - Church watcher and  Chamber choir member

    Brian Evans - Church watcher and Chamber choir member

        Brian has lived in St John’s Wood since the 1960s. He worked as a civil servant, and since he retired ...
  • Ben Warsop's bat factory near Lord's

    Ben Warsop's bat factory near Lord's

    Warsop’s bat factory was tucked in behind a block of flats on part of the second Lord’s site after the ...
  • Lord's Cricket Ground  - photographs through the years

    Lord's Cricket Ground - photographs through the years

    These are photos mainly taken by Jim Dunbar, Assistant Secretary of MCC, and published in his son David Dunbar’s book ...
  • Pillar Boxes in St John's Wood

    Pillar Boxes in St John's Wood

    Apparently there are 100 post boxes in St John’s Wood. They have been in use since 1852  and originally green, ...
  • 36  (originally 15) Hamilton Terrace

    36 (originally 15) Hamilton Terrace

        The 1871 Census records the house being occupied by Henry Stacy Marks, aged 41, with his wife, two daughters and ...
  • Eyre Arms Tavern & Assembly Rooms

    Eyre Arms Tavern & Assembly Rooms

    Eyre Arms Tavern, on the corner of Grove End Road and Wellington Road, was built in 1820 and opened in ...
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