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
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Thomas Cubitt, 1788 - 1855, master builder, lived here. London County Council
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This memorial to the arch is on the lawn beside the approach road to the manor house.
On his father's death in 1891 he became head of the family firm of W.H. Smith and Son and also took over as MP for the Strand Division, until 1910. Chairman of King's College Hospital. Became 2nd V...
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