Blake's house SE1
Blake lived here with his wife, Catherine, throughout the 1790s. The photograph was taken in about 1913 and shows that it had already been honoured with a plaque. Despite this the house, with the r...
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Holland House
The house, built in 1605 for Sir Walter Cope, was originally surrounded by a large estate. By the time it was bought by Henry Fox, first Baron Holland, in 1768 it still extended westwards as far as...
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Dulwich Village stocks
Sadly, our image does not show the Dulwich stocks, but some in Kent.
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Blossom Street Almshouses
Also known as Almshouses, Blossom Terrace, built by William Goswell. In the same street there were also the Weavers' Company Almshouses but they look to be a different building. From British Histo...
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Christ Church Charity School, Spitalfields
From British History online (mainly):Â In 1708 a charity school started in Spitalfields, the boys somewhere in Brick Lane, the girls somewhere in what is now Princelet Street. In 1782-3 a new school...
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Lytham House
In 1852 Richard Ansdell, then resident in Victoria Road, built a second studio in St. Alban's Grove (to the west of LeGrew's which was opposite number 3) and repaired an old cottage adjacent. In a...
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Hammersmith Palais
Former dance venue. It opened as a roller-skating rink, then became an ice rink, before being turned into a popular ballroom and concert hall. During WW2 it was used for making tanks and also as a ...
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J. Lyons & Co.
2019: We read the splendid Legacy by Thomas Harding published by Heinemann, a history of the family that built the J. Lyons empire. Below are our notes from that reading (augmented by the Oxford Ho...
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Mary Anne Clarke's house
We think Clarke lived in 1803 in the house that can be seen to the left (west) of this church. See the plaque page for why we think this. Â And that the Duke of York frequently visited her here.Â
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8 Grenville Street
The Marchmont Association thoroughly research their plaques and they found some interesting information about Barrie’s home: “Barrie (1937) writes (in the third person) about his first residences ...
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