Hugh Gaitskell, 1906 - 1963, statesman lived here.
Greater London Council
NW3, Frognal Gardens, 18
This house, Frognal End, is described and photographed in 1897, during Besant's tenure, at OOCities. The Underground Map says the house was built in 1892 for Besant.
Steve Tatum's Flickr has a c.1895 photo of this house and gives "House built in 1892. Architect, James Neale. Construction, Allison & Foskett."
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Hugh Gaitskell
Statesman. Born London. Labour MP and leader of the party from 1955 until his...
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Hugh Gaitskell
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
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Hugh Gaitskell
Sir Walter Besant (1836 - 1901) novelist and antiquary, lived and died here. ...
Charles Walter Stansby Williams, 1886 - 1945, writer, was born here.
Regent's Park Lit details how Bowen set scenes in her novels in Regent's Park, which she could see out the window as she wrote.
Francis Owen Salisbury "Frank" 1874 - 1962 Artist, mural and portrait painter recorder of scenes of magnificent pageantry and historic ev...
Edmund Burke, author and statesman, lived here. B. 1729. D. 1797
Painter. Born in East Bergholt, on the Essex/Suffolk border. From 1819 Constable spent much of his time in Hampstead and many of his finest paintings are of Hampstead landscapes. He died in Fitzrov...
The “fireman” on a steam train was the man who stoked the engine. You’ve seen him in cowboy films, furiously shovelling coal into the fir...
This is the story of a plaque that was lost and was mysteriously re-found, with pictures, before and after. Our thanks to Brian Longman f...
Born East Knoyle, Wiltshire, died London. Designer of 54 London churches, of which 13 were destroyed in the Blitz. Part of one of his churches, St Antholin, has ended up in an unexpected location...
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