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 and The Who, previously known as the 'High Numbers'. Burnt down after a long period of disuse. The picture of the building comes from the Who album: 'Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy'. gives some more information.
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Railway Hotel, Harrow
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The Who in Harrow
Pete Townshend was the guitar-smasher. We visited the site in May 2012 to fi...
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Edmund Matthew Shemeld
Trustee of the Lambeth Hayles Estate development in 1894. On the committee for the 1903-05 Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women. Edmund Matthew Shemeld was born on 18 January 1836 in Wob...
1 memorial
St Katharine Docks
SKDocks gives a brief introduction to the history of the area. A London Inheritance have done their usual thorough job with lots of images. In the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter Richard Widmark...
4 memorials
Theodore H. Bryant
Co-owner and director of the Bryant and May match factory.
1 memorial
Walter Scrimgeour
Extremely rich stockbroker. He bought Parkfield from his brother-in-law, Alan Block, when his own home at nearby no. 6 The Grove became too small for his eight children. He then bought the neighbou...
1 memorial
John Cusworth
British History On-line credits Cusworth with the Newby Place monument.  Mapping Sculpture provides some information. The stone masons John Cusworth & Sons was active 1825-79, at least two ge...
1 memorial
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