Henrietta Barnett formed a board of trustees to build this urban utopia following strict social principles: all classes accommodated, places of education provided, places for the handicapped and elderly, gardens with hedges, not walls, noise limited, shops etc. kept to the boundary and sales of alcohol prohibited. She chose Raymond Unwin to plan the estate and Edwin Lutyens as consulting architect.
On the picture source website the map is interactive, but visit external site for everything you need about the suburb. It is here we learn that "Lutyens' sketch for the landscaping was, as Dame Henrietta recalls, dashed off in a letter from Marseilles when he was en route for Delhi. At the western end of the Avenue is Lutyens' memorial to the Dame herself, a kind of classical wellhead." It is rumoured that Lutyens found Dame Henrietta a difficult client, and that he saw the Delhi commission as an escape from HGS. But perhaps he enjoyed designing her memorial.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hampstead Garden Suburb
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First house tree
October 2nd 1907. This tree was planted by Mrs Barnett on the occasion of th...
First two houses on HGS
On 2 May 1907 Henrietta Barnett cut the first sod here. The ceremony involved...
Hampstead Garden Suburb Jubilee
This stone was unveiled by Her Royal Highness, the Princess Margaret on 2nd J...
Henrietta Barnett plaque
Prior to the death of her husband in 1913, Dame Henrietta Barnett had been li...
Other Subjects
Sir Herbert Baker and Scott
Architects. Later Vernon Helbing joined the firm. Sir Herbert Baker was one of the four principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission, See Blomfield for the others.
Robert Mylne
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a squa...
John Penfold
Surveyor and architect. Born John Wornham Penfold in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a founding member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is best known for designing the British hexagona...
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Christ Church WW1 memorial - Hampstead
NW3, Hampstead Square, Christ Church
The lower section of the cross is inscribed with a list of 18 names. There is no heading but we think "WW1" is a fair guess, confirmed by...
18 subjects commemorated
Lieutenant John Henry Stephen Dimmer, VC
John (Jack) John Henry Stephen Dimmer was born at 37 Gloster Street, South Lambeth. Following action at Klein Zillebeke, Belgium, Dimmer learned of his VC reading a British newspaper whilst recover...
Irene Handl
TW11, Thames Walkway, Behind Broom Road
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
Councillor T. F. H. French
Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Aldermen and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
Lieutenant Frank Robson Best
Lieutenant in the 1/4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action, aged 21. He is buried in plot B. 72 at the Authuile Military cemetery on the Somme. Frank ...
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