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  • Dyson Heyden - Memories of St John’s Wood in the late 1940s

    Dyson Heyden - 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 ...
  • Viceroy Court in the 1930s and during the War

    Viceroy Court in the 1930s and during the War

    The architects, Marshall and Tweedy Viceroy Court was designed by the architectural firm Marshall and Tweedy in the 1930s. Charles Beresford Marshall ...
  • Project Evaluation Report

    Project Evaluation Report

    The final evaluation report following the completion of the project in August 2018.
  • Private Sidney Godley VC

    Private Sidney Godley VC

    Sidney Frank Godley (1889-1957) was educated at Henry Street (Allitsen Road) School (probably what is now Barrow Hill School) in ...
  • Jean and Norman Reddaway

    Jean and Norman Reddaway

    Jean Reddaway, née Brett, died peacefully on 23 July 2018, aged 94. For 55 years she was the beloved wife ...
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