We can find no information on the history of this place nor reason for the presence of the cannon.
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Broderip Ward
Ward in the former Middlesex Hospital, dedicated to the treatment of patients suffering from HIV/AIDS. When the epidemic began in the early 1980s, there was much misunderstanding about the nature ...
Rugby Estate
An area of land in Holborn owned by Rugby School. Lawrence Sheriff acquired the land in the 16th century and left it for the support of almshouses and a school. See there for more information.
Manor of Hyde
An area roughly equivalent to modern-day Hyde Park. It was owned by Westminster Abbey, and its woods afforded both fire-wood and shelter for the monks and for their game and water-fowl.
Three Colts Bridge
Grade II* listed bridge. It crosses the Hertford Union Canal, and was instigated by Sir George Duckett and constructed by Francis Giles.
Coal Hole Tavern
The meeting place of the Wolf Club of which in about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member. Lawrence Silverman tells us that, later, this was the tavern where Renton Nicholson staged his very rude...
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St Mary's trompe l'oeil - Hamilton
W2, St Mary's Square, Blossom Lower School
Emma lived in Greville's house on Paddington Green and it was here she met her future husband, Hamilton.
Timothy Gilbert
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Brother of Andrew Gilbert who also died in the attack. Timothy Paul Gilbert was born in 1966. He was marr...
Rifleman Robert Howard Bishop
Robert Howard Bishop was born on the 15 March 1894; the eldest of the six children of Robert Bishop (b.1864) and Annie Bishop née Howard (1873-1919) and his birth was registered in 2nd quarter of 1...
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N10, Hillfield Park
Hillfield Park, House of the Century Centenary Award, 28 May 2000. The Society for the Promotion of Historic Buildings
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