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Richard Desmond
Wealthy publisher and philanthropist. Born North London. Owner of Express Newspapers. Plays in a charity rock bank with Roger Daltrey.
Alice Meynell
Poet and journalist. Alice Thompson was born in Barnes. Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole. Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...
Builder / Building
Architectural journal created by Joseph Hansom as 'The Builder', renamed 'Building' in 1966 and still going strong. Edited by Hansom and then Alfred Bartholomew, it became successful and well-respe...
Ruth First
South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in exile.
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Nationalism, Race Issues, Africa, South Africa
Jewish Daily Post and Express
The building's listing entry says: “Having been established in 1926, the Jewish Daily Post ceased circulation in August 1935 shortly after the refurbishment.” Elsewhere we have read that the Jewis...
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Islington Library - Bacon
N5, Holloway Road, Islington Central Library
Spenser to the left; Bacon to the right. The frieze announces proudly 'Islington Central Library'. Above the keystone of the porch the da...
Councillor L. Goldstein
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.
George Fox Hosking
Senior 3rd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
Sir Charles Santley
NW8, Blenheim Road, 13
Sir Charles Santley (1834 - 1922) singer, lived and died here. L.C.C.
Sidney Street siege
We are indebted to Derek Smith for the following write-up of the siege: The Siege of Sidney Street on 3rd January 1911 came about because of a bungled robbery in Houndsditch in the City of London a...