Architectural historian and author of "The Buildings of England". Born in Leipzig, Germany. Hitler's rise to power caused him to move to London in 1935. Buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's at Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire.
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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
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Sir Niikolaus Pevsner - blue plaque
Sir Niikolaus Pevsner, 1902 - 1983, architectural historian, lived here from ...
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner - black plaque
He lived here for nearly 50 years from 1936 until his death in 1983.
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Clifford Culpin
Son of architect Ewart Culpin. Also designed Greenwich Town Hall. RIBA vice-president.
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Sir Basil Spence
Architect. Born Basil Urwin Spence in Bombay. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he won many prizes. His most famous work is probably the new Coventry cathedral which was completed i...
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Arthur Heron Ryan-Tenison, FRIBA
Born as Arthur Heron Ryan Tenison on 1 January 1861 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, a son of Edward Ryan Tenison (1830-1904) and Frances Sarah Tenison née Testelin (1842-1912). His date of birth wa...
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William Curtis Green
Architect and designer, based in London for much of his career. London works include: the Dorchester Hotel, Wolseley House at 160 Piccadilly, New Scotland Yard. Around 20 of his designs are listed ...
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Chelsea Temperance Society
Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1906 they published a set of cards showing their original Sydney Hall and vacant site nearby at the southern apex of Bury...
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London & South Western Railway
Initially named London and Southampton Railway it connected all the way to Plymouth into a London terminus at Nine Elms. The line was extended in 1848 to terminate at the new station Waterloo. L&am...
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Dove Bros. Ltd
Builders. Founded in Studd Street, Islington by William Spencer Dove (1793-1869). In 1852 his sons turned the business into a partnership. Builders of the pathology block of St Bartholomew's Hospit...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...
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