The site of 2 Chandos Villas, home of cookery writer Isabella Beeton and her publisher husband Samuel, 1856 - 62.
Harrow Heritage Trust
HA5, Uxbridge Road, 513
From Hidden London we learn that 2 Chandos Villas was one of a newly-built pair of red-brick houses which were destroyed by a direct hit in the Blitz.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Isabella Beeton - Hatch End
Cookery writer. Born Isabella Mary Mayson in Milk Street in the City (accordi...
Publisher and journalist. Born 39 Milk Street, Cheapside. At the age of twent...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Isabella Beeton - Hatch End
A trust set up with the objectives of encouraging artists and architects of b...
The distinguished physician Dr Hannah Billig G.M., M.B.E., 1901 - 1987, known locally as "The Angel of Cable Street", honoured for her b...
2015: The histories of nos 10 and 11, now occupied by the British Academy, are covered by an excellent Londonist post. There we learn t...
2 October 2014: The plaque was restored but we have kept our picture so you can see what it used to look like.
Photos taken in early summer 2010. The plaque is unlikely to remain in situ as the house is in danger of collapsing, owing to Mr Lyttle’s...
Silver Tiger has a good post on Naoroji.
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