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Wood Green inhabitants

Group, Benefactor

men of Wood Green who died in WW1, and WW2

Group

Harrods

A luxury department store on Brompton Road. Initially established by Charles Henry Harrod at 228 Borough High Street. Moved into a small shop at the current address in 1849, and expanded rapidly. ...

Group, Commerce

Daphne Milne

Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt married A. A. Milne in 1913 and their son Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920.  Christopher's marriage to his first cousin, Lesley de Sélincourt, distanced him ...

Person, Children, Literature

Christopher Robin Milne

Author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne and Daphne Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two b...

Person, Children, Literature

Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital

In 1868 the Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital moved into Avenue House on the east of the Green (shown on this 1863 map, about 2/3 from the left, 1/3 from the top...

Building, Medicine

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, is an agency of the U.N. Based in Paris, its purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collabor...

Group, Community / Clubs, France

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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk[a] was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia 1918-35. He is regarded as the founding father of Czec...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak colony

We can find no such group and think it was probably a temporary grouping of Czechoslovak people who came together to erect the Masaryk plaque.

Group, History, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia

Paddington Town Hall

The town hall for Paddington, designed by James Lockyer originally as the Vestry Hall, was on Paddington Green. Enlarged in 1900 and 1920. Closed and demolished in 1965 to make way for the Westway ...

Building, Politics & Administration