Historic House
Charles Alfred Cruft, dog show promoter lived near here, 1913 - 1938.
London Borough of Islington
N5, Highbury Grove, Ashurst Lodge
Ashurst Lodge (number 12) was demolished in 1965 to make way for Highbury Grove School.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Cruft
Dog show promoter. Worked as a travelling salesman for Spratt's. His first ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Cruft
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
Our second attempt at photographing this house, no better than the first. We are always there on very sunny days and either get glare or...
Unusually, at this site, there are three plaques commemorating the same event.
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2019: The FT reported that BT have announced their plan to sell this site. The building only dates from 1984 but BT (GPO) have been on th...
Chairman of the Thames Navigation & Port of London Committee in 1857. We can’t find a picture of the man but here’s the cup he was presented with, inscribed: “Thames Navigation & Port of ...
John Thelwall, 1764 - 1834, political orator, writer and elocutionist, lived and worked here 1806 - 1813. English Heritage
A public school in Malvern Worcestershire. During WW2 the college was requisitioned by the Admiralty October 1939 - July 1940, and the school temporarily relocated to Blenheim Palace. In 1942, its ...
Opened with 12 beds in 1845. The local German community was very large at this time and nurses were recruited from Germany from the Kaiserworth Institute. Florence Nightingale was so inspired by th...
Grandson of Agatha Christie, his mother Rosalind being Agatha's only child. Christie gave the rights to the play, the Mousetrap, to her grandson as a birthday present. He has given away a lot of...
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