A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied Forces. The has some information. The day of opening may be 2 rather than 6 (sources vary). The literal translation is 'Orange Port', orange of course being the colour of the Dutch Royal family, going back to the House of Oranje-Nassau, from which our King William III came.
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Oranjehaven
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Oranjehaven
Oranjehaven This building served as a club endowed in 1942 by Her Majesty Que...
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Albion Tavern
26 Russell Street (previously Great Russel Street). Â Pubs History lists licencees from 1848 but it dates back to the 18th century at least. Â Closed by 1922.
1 memorial
Local people (King's Cross)
Local people fought and won against office development and created The Calthorpe Project, community gardens, play space and under fives' area.
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Mrs Gay Christiansen
Founder of the Kensington Society, lived at 18 Kensington Square. When she failed to stop the replacement of some houses in Young Street with an aggressively modern multi-storey car park she formed...
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Railway Hotel, Harrow
A three-storey brick Victorian pub.  In the 1950s it was used as a jazz club and by February 1964 an R&B club (the Bluesday) was operating, where played: Long John Baldry, the Bo Street Runners...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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