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  • 6 Finchley Road to St Johns Wood station

    6 Finchley Road to St Johns Wood station

      St Johns  Wood  station 1937 The escalators lead to a low-level concourse, which retains its original pendant sphere light fittings and ...
  • 5 Avenue Road to Acacia Gardens

    5 Avenue Road to Acacia Gardens

    Walk up Avenue Road and turn into Allitsen Road, crossing Charlbert Street until you reach     Henry House 1940  This was architect ...
  • 4 Flats overlooking Regents Park

    4 Flats overlooking Regents Park

    Walk along by the park until you reach Bentinck Close  (architect Hugh Minty) The 35 variously sized flats in Bentinck Close were built  ...
  • 3 Cochrane Street to Regents Park

    3 Cochrane Street to Regents Park

    Continue down Finchley Rd past StJohn’s Wood station and  Acacia Road, then turn left into Circus Road and  first right ...
  • 2 Avenue Road to Finchley Road

    2 Avenue Road to Finchley Road

    Cross at the traffic lights and go down  Avenue Road (B525) leading south to Regents Park Avenue Lodge 1933  ( architects Wimperis  ...
  • 1 Swiss Cottage station and the "triangle"

    1 Swiss Cottage station and the "triangle"

    Swiss Cottage station 1939 The station opened on 20 November 1939 when a  deep level tunnel  had been constructed between Baker ...
  • Abercorn Place

    Abercorn Place

    6a Abercorn Place which is now 2a Nugent Terrace, was the studio house in the garden of the Manor House, 6 ...
  • John Minton (1917-1957) Painter & Illustrator

    John Minton (1917-1957) Painter & Illustrator

    Artist John Minton (1917-1957) , a scion of the china-producing family, was a major figure in the neo-Romantic movement of ...
  • 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 ...
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