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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT	Road construction and houses completed New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only. Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT	Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS) One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc. I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
Charles Hornsey Rise, N19 Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT	My House I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s. Reply
NH Woodgrange Road, E7 Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT	Telephone House Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000 Reply
Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT	War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there. Reply

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Marble Arch, 2016 Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=352348 TUM image id: 1510054281 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Somerset House, Park Lane: house (right) and stables (centre) in 1912, from junction of Park Lane and Oxford Street. Credit: British History Online TUM image id: 1510057932 Licence:	Speaker’s Corner, April 1987 Speakers here at this corner of Hyde Park nearest of Marble Arch may talk on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed, but in practice the police intervene only when they receive a complaint. Credit: Wiki Commons/Michael E. Cumpston TUM image id: 1607876169 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Montagu House, Portman Square TUM image id: 1510140427 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A view of Tyburn (1750) Credit: Old and New London: Volume 5. Edward Walford (1878) TUM image id: 1510156812 Licence:
Harrods Department Store frontage as viewed along Brompton Rd at night (2012) Credit: David Liff TUM image id: 1557150671 Licence:	The London Oratory Credit: FB Group Londonist Urban Oddities/Jim Hoe TUM image id: 1653846106 Licence:	The Serpentine Gallery with the 2008 Pavilion. Every year since 2000 the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens has commissioned a temporary summer pavilion by a leading architect. The series presents the work of an international architect or design team who has not completed a building in England at the time of the Gallery’s invitation. Each Pavilion is completed within six months and is situated on the Gallery’s lawn for three months for the public to explore. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1607872711 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, in Hyde Park, London (2006). Although described as an oval stone fountain, it has the form of a large, oval stream bed of about 50 by 80 metres. The 545 individual pieces of Cornish granite were cut by S. McConnell & Sons, in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. Credit: Wiki Commons/CGP Grey TUM image id: 1607944697 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Connaught Square, 2004 Credit: Andrew Dunn, TUM image id: 1510185099 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Ennismore Mews, SW7 with the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Dormiton at the end Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1634644830 Licence:	Going Greek, Colindale Credit: IG/@going.greek TUM image id: 1583775118 Licence:	Lowndes Street, c. 1905. TUM image id: 1483984242 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Motcomb Street (2021) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1673351375 Licence: CC BY 2.0	‘Pont Street Dutch’, a termed by Sir Osbert Lancaster CBE (1908-1986), is the architectural style typified by the large red brick gabled houses built in the 1880s in Pont Street. Credit: Atkey and Co. TUM image id: 1695299248 Licence:

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A view of Tyburn (1750)
Credit: Old and New London: Volume 5. Edward Walford (1878)
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The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, in Hyde Park, London (2006). Although described as an oval stone fountain, it has the form of a large, oval stream bed of about 50 by 80 metres. The 545 individual pieces of Cornish granite were cut by S. McConnell & Sons, in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland.
Credit: Wiki Commons/CGP Grey
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North side (Nos 2-11) of Raphael Street SW1 in the early 1900s. Raphael Street was laid out over the western portion of Knightsbridge Green in 1843.
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Part of Schmollinger’s 1833 map of Hyde Park. Rotten Row is marked as ’The King’s Private Road’. The map is the Hyde Park section of "Improved map of London for 1833, from Actual Survey. Engraved by W. Schmollinger, 27 Goswell Terrace".
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View of the old Rose and Crown in Knightsbridge (1857). Watercolour displayed at the British Museum.
Credit: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
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The White Hart Inn stood on Knightsbridge on the eastern bank of the River Westbourne, after the river emerged from the Serpentine. It was demolished in the 1840s to make way for Albert Gate.
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Pakenham Tavern (1875) The tavern was situated at the eastern end of Raphael Street, just off Knightsbridge. It was known for its wild evenings but was pulled down in the 1950s.
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