An association for residents, shops and local workers devoted to South End Green, which is the principal gateway to Hampstead Heath. Shortly after being formed, it succeeded in thwarting a plan to build an elevated motorway ring road that would have passed directly through and above the area.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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South End Green Association
{Beside the image of a triffid, taken from the cover of an early Penguin book...
Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her hus...
Person, Armed Forces, Children, Community / Clubs, Seriously Famous, Afghanistan, India, Kenya, South Africa
A Tuesday night club that attracted students from two nearby art colleges: Central School and St Martins. Some claim it was the birthplace of New Romanticism.
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
Founded by William Lambard to house twenty local, elderly, poor people and entrusted to be run by the Drapers' Company. The original buildings were demolished in 1818, and their replacements were e...
A charity dedicated to the conservation, improvement and enjoyment of Greenwich Park.
