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...
W H Hudson, writer & naturalist, 1841 - 1922. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth, 1991. Mario Campora Ambassador ...
We have also found this lovely insignia at Claremont Close.
Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) physicist, lived here. LCC
The IWM explains that the previous memorial was lost in the Blitz of WW2. We can find no other references to the previous memorial - we'd...
