City of Westminster
Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers, including Belloc, Chesterton, Conrad and Galsworthy met regularly in the early years of the 20th century.
W1, Gerrard Street, 16
Built in 1730.
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Mont Blanc restaurant
Poet, essayist and historian. Born France. Catholic. His works include 'Caut...
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton....
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not b...
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literatu...
Opened sometime early in the 20th century by Alphonse Pasquier. Edward Garnet...
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Mont Blanc restaurant
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
English Heritage Sir Basil Spence, 1907-1976, architect, lived and worked here.
London County Council John F. Sartorius, c1775 - c1830, sporting painter, lived here, 1807 - 1812.
That ". . . " suggests that the preceding words are a quotation. The best we can come up with is "The future's not ours to see. Que ser...
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe 1900 - 1966, landscape architect lived here 1936 - 1984. English Heritage
William Edward Stevens was born in 1880 the youngest of the three children of Arthur Stevens (1855-1920) and Jane Stevens née Hunt (1857-1883). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1881 i...
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Humphrey Geoffrey Brown was born on 4 July 1962 and died, aged 18 years, on 18 January 1981 in a fire at party being held at 439 New Cros...
From the parish of St Peter's in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a rifleman aged 18.
A watch house was an early form of local police station. Soon after the formation of the Hampstead police force in 1829, prisoners were kept in the Watch House at the top of Holly Walk.
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