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Richmal Crompton

Writer. Born Richmal Crompton Lamburn in Manchester Road, Bury. She became a teacher, but had to give up when she contracted poliomyelitis, and was left without the use of her right leg. She was th...

Person, Children, Literature

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Richard Courtney Balding

Born Camberwell. Employed as an insurance company director. Edwin Richard, his father, was MD of United Friendly Insurance Company (UF). A 1938 London Gazette refers to UF at 42 Southwark Bridge Ro...

Person, Politics & Administration

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Francis Smith

The Hammersmith ghost started haunting Black Lion Lane and St Paul's Churchyard in 1804. One night an excise officer, Francis Smith, filled his blunderbuss with shot, and himself with ale before ki...

Person, Paranormal

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Thomas Millwood

See Francis Smith for the story.

Person, Paranormal

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E. M. Forster

Novelist. Born Edward Morgan Forster at 6 Melcombe Place (demolished). 1883 moved to a house near Stevenage. In 1887 a great aunt died and Forster inherited enough to live on. Peripheral member of ...

Person, Literature