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 ...
In Charlotte Halliday’s account of living in the Wood in her childhood, she mentions that the family moved into 62 ...
James (Jacques) Tissot (1836 -1902) was an artist who had an Anglo-French career which was without parallel in the nineteenth century. ...
In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
Early visits to St John’s Wood My first acquaintance with St John’s Wood was when I stayed for a couple of ...
Return to the junction of St Johns Wood Terrace and St Ann’s Terrace Duke of York Public House was opened by developer ...
Turn right along St John’s Wood Terrace with its attractive Victorian houses, going past the pillars of the disused Congregational church, originally ...
Turn left out of the Church drive, and left again into St John’s Wood High Street. (Public lavatories can be ...
Cross Wellington Road, turn right, and then left into the entrance to the small park St John’s Wood Church Grounds This used ...
