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St Marylebone Almshouses

Categories: Property, Social Welfare

Funded from Count Woronzow's will. Built in 1836 and then re-built on the same site in 1965. Occupy the west corner at the junction of St John’s Wood Terrace and Woronzow Road. Lots more info at Tales from St John's Wood. Our picture shows the boardroom in the original Gothic-style building.

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St Marylebone Almshouses

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Count Simon Woronzow

{Either side of the relief bust:} 1744 – 1832 This road was named after Count...

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Clissold Park and House

Clissold Park and House

Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonathan Hoare. William Crawshay (1764 – 1834) bought it in 1811. He objected to his daughter's choice of a husband so it was...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture, Property

2 memorials
Stoke Newington Manor House

Stoke Newington Manor House

The photograph appears under Stoke Newington Manor House on the Hackney Plaques and Local History website. There is no further explanation. Maybe it shows excavations at the site.

Building, Property

1 memorial
Lazer Group

Lazer Group

Property group founded in the 1980s.

Group, Property

1 memorial
Tottenhall Manor

Tottenhall Manor

Dates back to at least the 15th century. Purchased by Charles Fitzroy (later Lord Southampton) and in 1761 he commissioned a survey of the land contained. It seems to have encompassed a large area...

Place, Property

1 memorial
41 Maitland Park Road

41 Maitland Park Road

Karl Marx lived here for the last 15 years of his life. London Picture Archive date this photo 1935 so perhaps it was taken to show the plaque, newly erected. Getty Images have another, 1958, pho...

Building, Property

1 memorial

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D. Holtom
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Thomas Hearne

Thomas Hearne

Thomas Hearne was born on 22 September 1744 in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, the son of William and Prudence Hearne. He was baptised on 26 September 1744 in St Mary the Virgin Church, Marshfield. H...

Person, Art, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
St Olaf House - plaque

St Olaf House - plaque

SE1, Tooley Street, St Olaf House

The "recreation ground in Tanner Street, SE1" is Tanner Street Park.

5 subjects commemorated
G. F. Watts

G. F. Watts

Born in London. His piano-making father named him after Handel. Member of the Holland Park Circle, an informal group of 19th-century artists based in the Holland Park district, especially in Melbu...

Person, Art, Sculpture

18 memorials
West India Docks

West India Docks

A series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs. Their construction was largely the responsibility of Robert Milligan, who had managed his family's Jamaica sugar plantations. He became outraged at loss...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial