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  • Garden Nurseries

    Garden Nurseries

        The illustration at the top of this entry and the website is Ben George’s lithograph of Henderson’s Nursery or Horticultural ...
  • 62 Hamilton Terrace

    62 Hamilton Terrace

    In Charlotte Halliday’s account of living in the Wood in her childhood, she mentions that the family moved into 62 ...
  • Jacques Tissot (1836 - 1902)

    Jacques Tissot (1836 - 1902)

    James  (Jacques)  Tissot (1836 -1902) was an artist who had an Anglo-French career which was without parallel in the nineteenth century. ...
  • French composer visits friends in Hamilton Terrace in 1958

    French composer visits friends in Hamilton Terrace in 1958

    In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
  • Lex Volvo workshop

    Lex Volvo workshop

    Early visits to St John’s Wood My first acquaintance with St John’s Wood was when I stayed for a couple of ...
  • 7.    St Ann's Terrace a quick walk round the Wood

    7. St Ann's Terrace a quick walk round the Wood

     Return to the junction of St Johns Wood Terrace and St Ann’s Terrace Duke of York Public House was  opened by developer ...
  • 6.   St John's Wood Terrace a quick walk round the Wood

    6. St John's Wood Terrace a quick walk round the Wood

      Turn right along St John’s Wood Terrace with its attractive Victorian houses, going past the pillars of the disused Congregational church, originally ...
  • 5.   St John's Wood High Street a quick walk round the Wood

    5. St John's Wood High Street a quick walk round the Wood

    Turn left out of the Church drive, and left again into St John’s Wood High Street. (Public lavatories can be ...
  • 4.    St John's Wood Church and Gardens a quick walk round the Wood

    4. St John's Wood Church and Gardens a quick walk round the Wood

    Cross Wellington Road, turn right, and then left into the entrance to the small park St John’s Wood Church Grounds  This used ...
  • 3.    St Johns Wood Road a quick walk round the Wood

    3. St Johns Wood Road a quick walk round the Wood

      Continue past Elm Tree Road, turning left at the traffic lights at the junction with St John’s Wood Road and walk ...
  • 2.    Abbey Road to Addison House a quick walk round the Wood

    2. Abbey Road to Addison House a quick walk round the Wood

    Walk to where Grove End Road converges with Abbey Road and you will find a  monument to the sculptor, Edward Onslow Ford ...
  • 1.    Grove End Road to Abbey Road a quick walk round the Wood

    1. Grove End Road to Abbey Road a quick walk round the Wood

    The whole Walk is roughly 3 kilometres long on level ground and takes about one and a quarter hours.  Exiting  ...
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