Italian painter and architect from Florence.
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Ealing Town Hall
Designed by Charles Jones, and built by Hugh Knight. It replaced a smaller town hall, that had also been designed by Jones. They are both in the same Gothic revival style; this one a whale compared...
F. Milton Harvey
Architect to the Tachbrook Estate, 1932 - 1954, he designed all of the blocks on the estate. He also designed the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre and City of Westminster Day Nursery on Bessborou...
The Black Cap
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
Sir Aston Webb
Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace, the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Kenneth Alfred Ballard, MC
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Clapham Sect
A group of evangelical Christians, who worshipped at Holy Trinity Church in Clapham and centred on William Wilberforce, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and other religious, philanthropi...
Mark Lemon
Co-founder and first editor of "Punch". Born Oxford Street. Aged 8, when his father died he was sent to live with his paternal grandparents at Church Farm House. Also founded "The Field" and was in...