The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
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Alec Clifton-Taylor
Architectural historian, author & broadcaster. He lived in Kensington most of his life and was President of the Kensington Society from 1978 until his death.
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Southgate Village Hall
We found the Village Hall on this 1897 map. Southgate Green Association has: "... the site of the village hall, which in 1882 housed the early meetings of the Southgate Local Board of Health, pred...
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Belsize Residents’ Association
From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s to stop the area being split in two by a motorway." The group "seek to preserve the ...
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Dame Ann Parker Bowles, DCVO, CBE
Aristocrat and Girl Guides leader. Born as Ann de Trafford on 14 July 1918, she was the eldest of the four children of Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford, 4th Baronet, MC, JP, DL (1891-1971) and the ...
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Metcalf fountain
N8, Middle Lane, Priory Park
No attractive detail to show so we've taken the opportunity to show the metal door that most fountains of this date have, presumably givi...
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Devon Barrant Russell
Known professionally as Devon Russell, he was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer who recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both as a solo artist and as a member of The ...
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Hoxton - WW1
N1, Bletchley Street, 3, Holy Trinity Church
The 2 stone plaques are embedded in the low retaining wall of the flower bed at the foot of the large blue panel. The difference in wordi...
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Durham Brothers, Atlas Foundry
Writing about Bow Road Edith's Streets has: "203 & 205 Atlas Iron Foundry Durham Bros, iron founders. Numerous plates on iron buildings throughout London demonstrate their work".
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