The site of 2 Chandos Villas, home of cookery writer Isabella Beeton and her publisher husband Samuel, 1856 - 62.
Harrow Heritage Trust
HA5, Uxbridge Road, 513
From Hidden London we learn that 2 Chandos Villas was one of a newly-built pair of red-brick houses which were destroyed by a direct hit in the Blitz.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Isabella Beeton - Hatch End
Cookery writer. Born Isabella Mary Mayson in Milk Street in the City (accordi...
Publisher and journalist. Born 39 Milk Street, Cheapside. At the age of twent...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Isabella Beeton - Hatch End
A trust set up with the objectives of encouraging artists and architects of b...
Historic House Kate Greenaway, 1846 - 1901, children's' book illustrator and artist, lived here, 1852 - 1873. London Borough of Islington
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from l...
The seat below the plaque is in the form of a book with the Bear himself painted on one side so you can sit beside him. We wonder how man...
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
Mehndi is the use of henna to decorate hands etc. in India and neighbouring countries. It is used particularly by women for festive occas...
English Heritage Sir Henry Cole, 1808 - 1882, campaigner and educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, lived here.
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
Round Table The neighbourhood of St. Martins Lane was, in the middle of the Eighteenth century, the resort of 'horsy and fighting men'. ...
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