Blackheath Station
Railway station served by trains from London and the North Kent and Bexleyheath lines. It was built using London Brick to a design by George Smith.
Railway station served by trains from London and the North Kent and Bexleyheath lines. It was built using London Brick to a design by George Smith.
Blake lived here with his wife, Catherine, throughout the 1790s. The photograph was taken in about 1913 and shows that it had already been honoured with a plaque. Despite this the house, with the r...
Property developer active 1884-91. The Dartmouth Park Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, 2009, mentions Blunt twice, as having developed Bramshill Gardens and Chester Road. Andrew Be...
Bolton Gardens where Potter lived was a row of houses on the south side of Old Brompton Road, now occupied by Bousfield Primary School. The 1933 picture shows just a section of number 2, at the le...
UCL has an extremely helpful page on Bolton House: Built in 1759 for Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731-71) as Baltimore House and in 1770 leased by the Duke of Bolton when it changed its...
Landowner. Maternal grandfather Queen Elizabeth II. Born Lowndes Square. Married Nina Cecilie Cavendish-Bentinck. Their ninth child became the Queen Mother. Died Glamis, Scotland.
An elegant house with views across countryside. Edward Lear's stockbroker father held the lease 1806 - 1829 so Edward lived here until he was 16. With two storeys and five bays it was not a parti...
Established to maintain London Bridge. Named after Bridge House, the original administrative and maintenance centre located where St Olaf House now is. Originally funded by tolls from London Bridge...
From their website (the picture source): "founded in 1856 by three liberal MPs as a mechanism for expanding the field of voters eligible to elect Members of Parliament". We don't understand but si...