Kidderpore Hall
From Knight Frank: "By 1843 ... Built that year, Kidderpore Hall was the home of the powerful merchant John Teil, an East India trader with vast tanneries in the Kidderpore district of Calcutta. Th...
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Winchester Cathedral
The original building was founded to the north of the present one. Work began on a new cathedral in 1079 and was consecrated in 1093. It has the longest nave of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. See ...
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Harringay Arena
Harringay Arena was a sporting and events venue. Built in 1936 by Alfred Critchley who had, in 1927, built the open-air Harringay Stadium, a major greyhound racing and motorcycle speedway venue. Th...
Building, Animals, Music / songs, Religion, Sport / Games, Theatre
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Black Bull Inn, Holborn
Located at 122 Holborn, at the junction with Leather Lane, and dating from at least 1697. This inn was demolished in 1904 to make room for an extension to the department store Gamages, who occupied...
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Old Clapham Library
The library on Clapham Common North Side was envisioned by Reverend George Forrester, Vicar of St Paul’s Church; Henry Bulcraig, a churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church, and William A Guesdon. It ope...
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Cavendish House, Clapham
From Clapham Society, writing about Henry Cavendish: "... like his father he was passionately interested in science .. established his own laboratory. On his father’s death in 1783 he moved this fr...
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Omnibus Theatre
It occupies the former library in Clapham, and hosts a wide variety of pruductions.
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Bell Street School / Rutherford School
From Local History: 1870 "The newly formed London School Board was searching actively for sites, so a block of dilapidated houses in Lisson Street, next to an existing Ragged School, must have been...
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St Mary on Paddington Green
From Know Your London: "The first parish church existed as a chapel before 1222. It was dedicated to St Catherine and stood on the same site. In 1678 the second parish church of Paddington was buil...
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