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  • Anna Neagle - actress

    Anna Neagle - actress

      Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox DBE, better known as Anna Neagle, was born in 1904 as Florence Marjorie Robertson. The name Neagle ...
  • Yolanda Sonnabend, Artist

    Yolanda Sonnabend, Artist

      Yolanda Sonnabend  was born in 1935 in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) to a Jewish sociologist and his wife who was a doctor. ...
  • Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Sir Alan Bates CBE

    Alan Bates was an English actor who became well known in the 1960s. He was born in 1934 and won a ...
  • Lee Remick (actress)

    Lee Remick (actress)

    Lee Remick in a publicity portrait for the film ‘Telefon’, 1977. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)     Lee Remick lived at 8 ...
  • Scott Ellis Gardens

    Scott Ellis Gardens

                Scott Ellis Gardens is a large group of flats off Grove End Road on either side of Warwick Place. It ...
  • Marjorie Proops OBE

    Marjorie Proops OBE

      Marjorie Proops was born Rebecca Marjorie Israël in 1911 and married Sidney Proops in 1935. She became an agony aunt ...
  • 33 Hamilton Terrace

    33 Hamilton Terrace

    In the 1980s this large house on the west side of Hamilton Terrace was  the residence of the Senegal Ambassador ...
  • Major General Sir Digby Raeburn

    Major General Sir Digby Raeburn

    Major General Sir Digby Raeburn was born in 1915. He was educated at Winchester and Magdalene Cambridge where he took ...
  • Michael Salmon

    Michael Salmon

    MIchael Salmon was chairman of the St John’s Wood Society from 1992 to 2001. Born in London in 1929, Michael was ...
  • Raymond Leppard CBE

    Raymond Leppard CBE

    Raymond Leppard was born in London in 1927 and studied music, particularly baroque music, at Trinity College Cambridge. He became ...
  • Lord's in the First World War

    Lord's in the First World War

    1914 – 1918 1914 had seen the centenary of Lord’s and had been celebrated with a match between an MCC South ...
  • Sir A J Ayer FBA 1910 - 1989

    Sir A J Ayer FBA 1910 - 1989

    Alfred Jules Ayer was born at 8 Neville Court, Abbey Road, in St John’s Wood in 1910 to a wealthy ...
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