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  • Courtenay chemists

    Courtenay chemists

    HARISH PATEL DIRECTOR OF COURTENAY CHEMISTS Harish was born in Uganda, and as further education in that country was limited, he ...
  • Sir Harold Himsworth KCB, FRS

    Sir Harold Himsworth KCB, FRS

    Sir Harold (Harry) Himsworth, born in Huddersfield in 1905, was a distinguished clinical scientist. He married Charlotte Gray in 1932 and ...
  • Lord's Dry Cleaners, Lodge Road

    Lord's Dry Cleaners, Lodge Road

    BEGINNINGS IN LODGE ROAD IN THE 1980s Michael Tanna opened his shop at 10 Lodge Road in 1980. He took the ...
  • The history of St John's Wood and Marlborough Road stations

    The history of St John's Wood and Marlborough Road stations

    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

    Melina Place

    Melina Place which is a short street running westwards off Grove End Road, has had a mixed history of residents. As ...
  • Mistresses and Brothels

    Mistresses and Brothels

    According to Stella Margetson in her short history of St John’s Wood which she titled “Abode of Love and the ...
  • Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple

    Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple

    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 in St John's Wood - St John's Wood Court, Abraham Davis and Hercule Poirot

    The arrival of blocks of flats in St John's Wood - St John's Wood Court, Abraham Davis and Hercule Poirot

    The arrival of blocks of flats Mansion flats appeared in London at the end of the nineteenth century.  For example, Artillery ...
  • Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18

    Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18

    with special reference to St John’s Wood Zeppelins In 1900 the Germans began building Zeppelins – rigid steerable airships – and by ...
  • 5 Northwick Terrace & Agatha Christie

    5 Northwick Terrace & Agatha Christie

    Agatha Miller was born in 1890 into a wealthy family in Torquay, Devon. She received a home education and was ...
  • Memories of Burghley House, Loudoun Road in the 1940s

    Memories of Burghley House, Loudoun Road in the 1940s

    I’ve often wondered why the house where I was born had a name that suggests broad acres. Burghley House is ...
  • A snapshot view of St John's Wood in 1905

    A snapshot view of St John's Wood in 1905

    St John’s Wood has conservatories at the back of its houses, banks of geraniums along its garden walls, and sprinklers ...
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