First documented in 1674, at its largest the farmland was bounded by High Road, Ballards Lane, Long Lane, Squire's Lane. The Cobley family owned he farm from 1680 to 1902 when it was sold, the buildings demolished and the land developed. The picture source is a local history report from 1927.
The Underground Map shows both these buildings on a 1900 map.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cobley Farm and Fallow Farm
Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-...
Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi was born in 1778 in London. His father was a...
Near here at Fallow Corner stood the home of Joseph Grimaldi, actor and famou...
On this site stood Fallow Cottage, the home of Joseph Grimaldi, actor and fam...
Text transcribed of the information board (which itself credits the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography): Thomas Fairchild was born in May 1667. In 1690 he established himself as a nurseryman ...
One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.Agriculturist. Born Pusey, Berkshire. Died Christ Church, Oxford.
Here we summarise the splendid London Gardens Online : Land given by Sir Hans Sloane in 1733 to serve the Chelsea Parish Church of St Luke's and became the King's Road Burial Ground. 1882 a mortu...
The William Curtis Ecological Park was the United Kingdom's first urban ecology park. Max Nicholson and the Trust for Urban Ecology (created at the same time, by Nicholson) created it on a derelict...
The Ham & High, the local newspaper, carried the story of Sargent's motorcycling accident in Hornsey Lane which led to his death. He was on his way home to Thornbury Square, Highgate, from his...
Left to right these busts are: Cunningham, Jellicoe and Beatty, that well known legal firm. (Unusually there is an error in the Margaret ...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis of house rules.
The National Archive BIS War Memorials has research about all the names on this war memorial.
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